City Of Penticton 2023

Penticton doesn’t want the world’s largest hockey stick back
The call has gone out to find a new home for the world’s largest hockey…

City evacuates 25 homes at Penticton mobile home park due to potential rockslide
The residents of 25 homes in a Penticton mobile home park were evacuated earlier today…

UPDATE: Work begins to stabilize rockslide threat at Penticton mobile home park
A geotechnical assessment of an unstable slope threatening a Penticton mobile home park has been…

Penticton man’s dream of opioid crisis memorial bench realized
A memorial bench has been unveiled in Penticton to commemorate the lives lost to the opioid…

Penticton looking for another new City manager
The City of Penticton is looking for a new City manager — its fifth since 2010.…

Penticton has a plan to fix dramatic decline in housing starts
Since 2017, Penticton has averaged more than 500 housing starts every year but that has…

Penticton mayor looking to dent city’s crime within a year
By two key measures, Penticton is the crime capital of the Thompson-Okanagan region and ranks…

Canadian Tire in Penticton to almost double in size
Canadian Tire received permission today, July 18, to almost double the size of its Penticton…

Penticton backpedals on plan to remove street parking for bike lane
The City of Penticton will be making the Lake-to-Lake cycling route a little less intrusive…

Newly painted rainbow crosswalk vandalized in Penticton
It wasn’t long before somebody defaced the new two-spirit rainbow crosswalk in Penticton. The symbol…

‘Making art accessible’: New sculptures unveiled in Penticton
The public art work that decorates Penticton’s downtown and northern waterfront each year have been…

Public art from Penticton’s sculpture exhibit will likely become private
Members of the public may have had their last chance to appreciate some of the…

Airbnb may be good for tourists but at a cost to Okanagan residents
Short term rentals are forcing renters to pay hundreds to thousands of extra dollars every…

Hundreds of new homes on the way to Penticton
The City of Penticton’s North Gateway Plan to redevelop the area near the South Okanagan…

Penticton Art Gallery’s funding restored after council hears from curator
Funding to the Penticton Art Gallery has been restored to $125,000 after City Council originally…