
Penticton News Today & Local Events

Summerland Credit Union: Membership Means Something
Summerland Credit Union has been proudly serving the Okanagan Valley for more than seventy-five years.…
Okanagan society working to keep people out of shelters one landlord at a time
Helping people avoid homelessness in the Central and North Okanagan is a prime focus of…

TRU prof’s new book all about learning from plants, not about them
A plant conservationist and professor of botany and ecology at Thompson Rivers University has published…

iN PHOTOS: Metal artist makes sculptures out of cutlery and horseshoes near Summerland
A stainless steel fabricator by trade, Mark Wong of Osprey Lake near Summerland followed his…

What makes these senior rescue donkeys in Chase so special
Tucked on a farm in the Turtle Valley near Chase are almost 100 rescued donkeys.…

YO MAMA: The lasting joy of well-loved toys
OPINION In the winter of 1962, a little girl saw a velveteen horse in the…

City of Kamloops lends a hand to real estate developers
Real estate developers will likely see their costs drop in Kamloops for at least the…

iN PHOTOS: Full moon shines bright over Kamloops, Okanagan
A big, bright full moon could be seen in skies over Kamloops and the Okanagan…

Some housing prices still going up in the Okanagan
February saw a 50% increase in housing sales in Kamloops, the Okanagan and beyond. And,…

Two highrise towers planned for landmark Kelowna church site on Highway 97
The New Life Church on Highway 97 near Orchard Park mall in Kelowna is in…

Buyers finding opportunities in Okanagan housing market
There are a lot of gloomy real estate stories around these days about high interest…

B.C. octogenarian lawyer disbarred for facilitating ‘suspicious’ real estate deals
An octogenarian lawyer has been disbarred and is on the hook for $10,000 after he…

Thompson-Okanagan cities among most affordable for first-time home buyers
While housing prices skyrocketed in Kamloops and the Okanagan last year, a new national survey…

First highrise in Kelowna’s Rutland neighbourhood scaled back
What was proposed in 2021 to be Rutland’s first eight-storey highrise building is heading back…

Bright future foreseen for all sectors of Kelowna’s economy: report
As the world emerges from the COVID pandemic and lives through months of high inflation…

