Shannon Quesnel

PENTICTON - The owner of the new Petro-Canada gas station has to install louvers on his windows or face daily $100 fines. City hall came down hard at Monday's meeting as the louvers, horizontal slats meant to shade windows, were included in a council-approved design. The station is located at the avenues of Eckhardt West...

PENTICTON - Mayor Garry Litke was gracious to chair MLA Dan Ashton when the former mayor visited city hall Monday night and there might be an extra special reason for that. The courtesy might have been due to the respect council had for the former mayor. It might also have something to do with the...

PENTICTON-KELOWNA - Fintry Queen owner Andy Schwab experienced rough seas at city hall but managed to make it a little closer to shore Monday night. Council was both excited and cautious about Schwab's idea to bring the 140-foot paddle boat to Penticton. Schwab wants to park and operate it from a dock he would build...

PENTICTON - The Penticton Hospitality Association has failed to effectively market the community according to city officials who ordered the association to give its funding to Tourism Penticton. "In our view the contract was not being adhered to," Mayor Garry Litke said at Monday night's council meeting. The association signed a five-year deal with the...

PENTICTON - Mule deer better watch out in Invermere as its residents voted in favour of culling and other deer management options. As Penticton puts its mule deer issue on the back-burner, Invermere put the animals back in its crosshairs with a referendum on Saturday. There were two questions on the document asking whether or...

SOUTH OKANAGAN - Penticton and its neighbours get straight A's in safety, education, arts and leadership but will have to stay after class for poor job opportunities and failing to tighten the gap between the rich and the poor. The grades come from the 2013 Vital Signs report from the Community Foundation of the South...

PENTICTON - Questions about a zero-per cent tax increase being sustainable and about a proposed new firefighting training site will be two hot topics at tonight's city council meeting. A fiscal review committee had both these items on the table to be picked at and it wants a business case made for the training site...

PENTICTON - Reindeer and elves can safely poke their heads out this weekend now the ghoul and ghosts have been tucked away. There will be more than 100 vendors selling pottery, jewelery, linen, crafts and food, as well as live music and Santa Claus himself at the Santa Presents 17th Annual Craft Show at the...

PENTICTON - The inaugural Zombie Walk and Costume Parade on Main Street looked like a spilled bag of mixed action figures. On Thursday afternoon princesses strolled alongside Master Chiefs, bumblebees flitted around dolphins and zombies refrained from devouring everyone whole. It's a good thing the guy dressed like Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead left...

PENTICTON - Boonstock will be bringing blasts of music and hordes of tourists to Penticton next summer. The Boonstock Music and Arts Festival, billed as one of Canada's biggest concerts, made its name in Sturgeon County, Alta. for nearly 10 years and has attracted big-name artists such as Guns N' Roses former lead guitarist Slash,...

PENTICTON - A stolen 2011 Corvette that was driven through a Penticton showroom's bay glass doors has been found in Surrey Saturday morning. Dealership owner Ken Huber did not expect he'd hear of the stolen Corvette ever again. He said this is the first time something was stolen from the showroom and he plans on...

PENTICTON - Don't mistake Thursday for Monday if you see zombies shuffling on downtown Main Street. The Downtown Penticton Association is kicking off Halloween tomorrow with a zombie and costume event starting at 4:30 p.m. Everyone in costume or without is welcome to attend the free parade which starts on Nanaimo Avenue and ends on...

"SOMETIMES OUR OFFICERS HAVE TO MAKE THE HARD DECISION TO EUTHANIZE." THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Killing animals is the last thing conservation officers want to do after joining a service aimed at protecting the environment. "None of our officers have ever liked that," Inspector Barb Leslie said. In September, conservation officers had to shoot a deer near...

OLIVER - A pair of brothers believed responsible for bombing a car in Oliver will undergo psychiatric assessment before returning to court on Nov. 20. Stephan, 19, and Eric Daoust, 23, were before Penticton Provincial Court on Monday to learn they will be held in custody and assessed. The two face one count each of...

PENTICTON - Summerland residents enjoyed a free chauffeured ride to Penticton earlier this morning thanks to B.C. Transit and their community's leadership. The route will run four times a day, for free, with two morning shifts starting at 7:15 a.m. at the Summerland Okanagan Regional Library before heading to Victoria North at Jubilee Road, then...

PENTICTON - There's only a few days left to tell the province how to change the rules regarding liquor, its sale and where it can be bought. Parliamentary Secretary for Liquor Policy Reform MLA John Yap said input has come from law enforcement, medical professionals, city staff, liquor licensee holders and the average citizen regarding...

PENTICTON - If the municipal election was held the same year as the provincial one MLA Dan Ashton would never have considered giving a $30,000 cheque to the City of Penticton. That's the estimated cost for Penticton's byelection held to replace Ashton when he resigned as mayor to run in the provincial contest. He had...

PENTICTON - Car thieves drove a Corvette through a showroom's glass wall at a Penticton car dealership Thursday night. Penticton RCMP received a report near midnight of smashed glass and a car speeding away from the Huber GMC dealership at 933 Westminster Ave. West. Officers arrived on scene and found a showroom glass bay door...

OKANAGAN FALLS - Engineers exchanged their high-tech electronics for hammers and nails after a large radio dish was damaged during air transport. The 200-square metre prototype dish was blown around and twisted out of shape while being delivered by helicopter to the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory on Oct. 17. Engineers were already dreaming up repair...

PRINCETON - A fatal accident closed Highway 3 east of Princeton for hours on Friday. The driver, 50, died at the scene after his rig left the road in Bromley Rock Provincial Park at about 5:41 a.m. Road and weather conditions were poor at the time of the crash with dense fog and ice covered...