Shannon Quesnel

PENTICTON - The city's downtown transforms every Saturday from a collection of retail outlets to a gathering of neighbours. Supporters hope the communal quality of the Penticton Downtown Market, as well as its size and diversity, will make it stand out in the Great Places in Canada contest, run by the Canadian Institute of Planners. The...

PENTICTON - Two local athletes made headlines in the Challenge Penticton races on Sunday but for different reasons. Jeffrey Symonds came out on top, but Janelle Morrison didn't finish after she was involved in a "vehicle accident." Symonds took first place in the first ever Challenge Family triathlon event with a time of 8:29:57 despite...

PENTICTON - Challenge Penticton brings athletes, money, activity and plenty of road closures to the community. Close to 1,300 triathlon competitors, plus their families and friends, will congregate in the city's north end especially near the Gyro Park and Lakeshore Drive area. Motorists can expect lengthy delays at the parking lot area at Gyro Park's...

PENTICTON - Candidates will seek applause first and votes second after Tuesday night's meet-the-candidates event at Penticton Lakeside Resort and Casino. Penticton's byelection is booked for Sept. 7 and there are eight people running. Former councillor Garry Litke, previous candidate Vic Powell and newcomer Brian Henningson are looking to be mayor. Kevin Andrews, Patrick Buchanan,...

PENTICTON - Council has had enough with the trash and messy appearance at 363 Churchill Ave. Photos show the front lawn creeping onto the driveway, loose boards stacked near the front window and bags of trash, a discarded vacuum cleaner and a large satellite dish in the back. The city has chased the property owner...

CANNINGS RAISED CASH IF NOT VOTES PENTICTON - Before the 2013 provincial election, the Penticton riding figured to be a tough race, and the campaign spending by the NDP and Liberals. MLA Dan Ashton slightly beat out NDP candidate Richard Cannings in both spending and votes. Ashton and his team spent $85,534 and collected 11,551...

 PENTICTON - A stolen truck led police to a Calgary man on Monday for various drug and weapon possessions. Yesterday Penticton RCMP drug task officers arrested two Calgary residents, Kid Ashley Tye Broadhead, 33, and a female, 32, in a parking lot in the 2100 block of Main Street. Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said Broadhead has...

PENTICTON - A 40-year-old welder learned his lesson for possessing child pornography, according to Provincial Court Judge Gale Sinclair, and will spend 90 days in jail to be served only on weekends. Penticton resident Jason David Anderson pled guilty on Tuesday to possession of child porn. The other three charges of accessing child porn, importing...

PENTICTON - Devastating is what Royal Canadian Branch 40 president Murray Grandy calls the theft of $2,000 from their office. The Martin Street building was broken into sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning and nearly two grand of cash from weekend events were stolen from a deposit box on the interior side of the...

PENTICTON - A taxi driver with a troubled past who admitted to having his genitals licked by a dog in a child's presence has been charged with two counts of exposing himself to children. This was part of a recorded statement made by Roy Charles O'Donaghey to an investigator with the Keremeos RCMP detachment. His...

PENTICTON - The discovery of a dead woman early Friday morning at Jubilee Motel prompted a B.C. Coroners Service investigation. Spokesperson Barb McLintock said the investigation has just begun and the service has no new details to disclose. A small memorial was set up for the woman in a fountain in the motel's courtyard. The...

PENTICTON - Penticton's graveyards are expected to get new life if council votes to spend $1.3 million on upgrades. The plan is to make Lakeview and Fairview Cemeteries, as well as proposed new sites, fit for new internments for the next 25 years. Fairview should be restored and landscaped, city staff said in a report and...

OSOYOOS - The public is being warned to be on the lookout for a dangerous pit bull that is back on the loose after being stolen yesterday from a locked animal control building. Brutus, an American pit bull Terrier, has killed one dog and attacked another. It was removed from a regional district compound in...

OLIVER - An exploding car last week has not stopped Oliver residents from their day-to-day activities. An improvised explosive device exploded beneath an unoccupied vehicle on Aug. 11 around 2 a.m. in the 600 block of Earl Crescent in Oliver. No injuries were reported. Acting mayor Maureen Doerr said residents were surprised when it happened...