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Area leadership wants another opinion before considering a $1.5 million loan to upgrade its 911 service. For some on the Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen board, it is a case of not fixing what's not broken. For other board directors it is imperative to find a way to modernize the area's 911 radio services. Most of the...

Finding the cash to fix the area's 911 emergency services will be on the plate of the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen meeting today. It will cost $1.6 million to upgrade the RDOS's 911 dispatch service which is used by fire, police and ambulance crews. The RDOS also has a contract with the City of Kelowna...

The lives of 149 B.C. workers who died last year will be remembered on the Annual Day of Mourning on April 26 in Penticton. The public is invited to the memorial tree in front of McLaren Park Arena at 1350 King St. where acting mayor Garry Litke will read a city proclamation. Residents are free...

Rural community post offices might become a thing of the past thanks to possible Canada Post cuts. Area D director Tom Siddon told Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen board members his community almost lost a small post office 20 years ago. He said residents do not want to travel to Penticton to buy stamps. "They are going...

A building might be too high for some on Penticton city council. A developer wants to build an 11-storey mixed-use building at 269 Haynes St. where Raezor's Edge Marine sits. It will have eight storeys of residences, 5,000 square feet of office space, two retail units on the main floor and 44 slots for indoor...

Switching from blue boxes to plastic bags for yard waste might get newspapers in the trash. BFI Canada complained to Penticton city council their staff were being injured emptying blue boxes filled with yard waste. The company wants yard trash in blue or clear plastic bags for each of the 19 yard waste collection days....

A 36-year-old Penticton man was convicted today of luring a child through the Internet, except the child didn't exist and its unclear what, if anything, he lured her for. Stephen Robert Carl Hughes was arrested in an online sting operation on June 17 when he was a Summerland resident. The former casual employee of the Okanagan...

Penticton city council decided to not make a decision this week about construction deadlines at 450 Martin St. Instead it will be examined at the next council meeting. For several years the site at 450 Martin St. sat as a paid-parking spot. P2 Development Company Inc. owns that space. There was supposed to have been...

Two Penticton runners were listed to be at the 2013 Boston Marathon. Multiple explosions have been reported at the marathon's finish line in downtown Boston. Ellis Andrews, 68, and Thomas Evans, 44, of Penticton were listed as participants on the marathon's website, www.baa.org. Evans is a dentist and staff at his office told Infotel News...

Chickens make the best customers. They always know what they want and they are easy to please. Nadine Remington of Penticton watches her two children play with the family's hens Candice and Isabella in her backyard. The two kids pretend their play house is a Sonic drive-through restaurant and the chickens are customers. "The kids...

Penticton's acting mayor is Coun. Garry Litke who was appointed in a unanimous vote. Mayor Dan Ashton is on a leave of absence. He is running as the Liberal candidate for the Penticton riding. "I would like council to know how much I appreciate their trust in me," Litke said at Monday night's council meeting....

Stockwell Day says he supports B.C. Liberal candidate Dan Ashton because he doesn't want the NDP to win the provincial election. Day says B.C. cannot afford the NDP being in charge again. The former federal Conservative MP was onboard the SS Sicamous last week attending a campaign fundraiser with Ashton and more than 100 supporters....

Climate change is changing all the rules including the rules and methods used to predict future water amounts. Dr. Anna Warwick Sears said the old ways of predicting future water supplies are becoming out-of-date. The executive director of the Okanagan Basin Water Board told the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen directors there are new methods to...

Penticton RCMP arrested prison escapee James John Jackson, 31, on Tuesday. Jackson escaped the Ferndale Institution in Mission on March 19. He was was found hiding under a bed at a Kaleden residence and was arrested without incident. An 18-year-old female resident of Kelowna was also arrested at this location on a warrant from Kelowna....

Crime Stoppers wants tips about Tyler Edward Andrist's whereabouts. He is wanted for a breach of probation. Andrist has a lengthy criminal record and has been convicted on numerous counts of fraud, mischief and assault offences committed in Penticton. He is a 36-year-old Caucasian man, six feet and one inch in height (186 centimetres) and...