Okanagan Falls News

No firm land deal for South Okanagan seniors project
OKANAGAN FALLS – Neogotiations to build seniors housing on Okanagan Falls Legion property have slowed…

Okanagan Falls firefighters extinguish house fire
OKANAGAN – Fire crews put out a house fire near Okanagan Falls this afternoon. The…

That’s a wrap: Production of Nicolas Cage movie in South Okanagan changing locations
OKANAGAN FALLS – The film crew shooting the movie The Humanity Bureau starring Nicolas Cage is wrapping…

Affordable housing gets big boost in Okanagan Falls, Keremeos
OKANAGAN FALLS – Okanagan Falls and Keremeos received some welcome news regarding affordable senior housing…

Okanagan Falls seeks rural dividend funding to develop town centre strategy
PENTICTON – Continuing efforts to bring new life and character to Okanagan Falls business area…

UPDATE: Wildfire near Okanagan Falls 75 per cent contained
OKANAGAN FALLS – An Okanagan Falls resident says campers were fleeing in chaos after a…

RCMP, fire officials investigating Okanagan Falls fire
PENTICTON – A fire in Okanagan Falls early Sunday morning is being treated as suspicious…

Okanagan Falls resident catches thieves in the act
PENTICTON – Police came to the aid of an Okanagan Falls man who interrupted a…

Car hits concrete barrier on Highway 97 south of Penticton
OKANAGAN FALLS – No one was hurt in a single vehicle crash on Highway 97…
Okanagan Falls thieves caught red-handed
PENTICTON – An alert neighbour helped RCMP get their man — or men, more accurately…

Cube van erupts in flames at Okanagan Falls service station
OKANAGAN FALLS – Police are calling a fire which damaged a cube van and a…

Driver seriously injured in South Okanagan head-on crash now in stable condition
PENTICTON – The Oliver woman rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries following a head-on crash…

Break-in at famous Okanagan Falls ice cream parlour
“HORRIFIC DAMAGE” OKANAGAN FALLS – Someone broke into Tickleberry’s, the famous Okanagan Falls ice cream parlour, early this morning by ramming a SUV through a wall. Owner Kelsey Hoy says she got the call from her alarm company at about 4:20 a.m., Aug. 3, and raced to her shop to find the RCMP already there....

Coroner rules Okanagan Falls drowning death ‘undetermined’
OKANAGAN FALLS - The B.C. Coroner's Service figured out what killed an Edmonton man found floating in the Okanagan River near Okanagan Falls last spring, but questions about why he ended up in the river remain unanswered. Coroner Walter Burns has determined Andrew Scott Gangl drowned in the river and alcohol and drugs were contributed...