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Vernon to hold first MMA fighting competition in a decade
VERNON – The octagon is coming back to Vernon. For the first time in a…
Former Vernon residents fundraise with Kal Lake paddle
VERNON – Two former Vernon residents are heading back to their hometown to paddleboard the…

iN PHOTOS: Kick-off to summer at Big White came with some snow
KELOWNA – The official launch of Big White Ski Resort’s summer season started with wet…

Mind over matter: SilverStar to hold 24-hour mountain bike race
VERNON – After racing his mountain bike for over 12 hours and now surrounded by…

This 80-year-old Kelowna woman is running and winning marathons
KELOWNA – Now that she’s 80, the pressure is off Kelowna’s Liz Borrett to win…

Vernon pickleballers make passionate appeal
VERNON – When Rob Irving said his club's members had a "healthy passion for pickleball"…

Vernon Special Olympics club allows athletes to focus on achievements
VERNON – Over 1,000 volunteers and 600 athletes are coming together this weekend to make…

Vernon MLA disappointed by arena ‘hiccup’, says minister is on it personally
VERNON - Vernon’s MLA isn’t happy about ongoing delays surrounding a referendum for a new ice sheet. The provincial government rejected, for a second time, a referendum proposal from the City of Vernon and the North Okanagan Regional District, putting the initiative even further behind schedule. Vernon-Monashee MLA Eric Foster says he’s ‘disappointed with how...
New Okanagan disc golf course lands in Vernon
VERNON - You’ve got your putting and your driving Frisbees, your heavy ones and your sleek, thin ones, and now fans of the popular sport of disc golf — and curious newcomers — will have a scenic, and best of all, free, course in Vernon to fling them on. It’s all happening on a city-owned...

City hits home run with baseball diamond improvements
PENTICTON - Baseball fields around town are set to get much-needed improvements thanks to a new partnership between the City and Penticton Slo-Pitch League. The fields at Lions, Parkway and Skaha ball diamonds will get new rooftops, players’ benches, a new utility shed, tractor and metal base plates (the peg-system used in the past caused...

Early bird rates for Challenge 2015 end Sunday
PENTICTON - Time is running out to get early bird registration rates for next year’s Challenge Penticton race—North America’s oldest and most iconic long-distance triathlon. Early bird rates for full distance ($500), half distance ($250), full relay distance ($695) and half relay distance ($395) expire Sunday, Nov. 16. More information on regular registration rates will...

New Sun Peaks sport is like riding go-carts down a mountain
SUN PEAKS - There's a new sport coming to Sun Peaks — the first of it's kind in North America — and the resort will have it ready for adventures who want to extend their descents down the mountain into summer. A Mountain Cross Cart course is under construction on Sunbeam ski run, paralleling the...

Mount Baldy expected to reopen for skiing this season
PENTICTON - Mount Baldy may be up-and-running this season despite financial setbacks that kept the ski resort closed last year. The company that has been handling the Mount Baldy foreclosure account, G-Force Real Estate, says the only thing left to do is assemble all the required pieces to re-launch the resort this upcoming season. A...

Cycling: the Penticton tourism industry’s next target
PENTICTON - Cycling is a popular hobby and sport in the South Okanagan but it could soon be a major tourism driver. City representatives introduced the idea of Penticton as a province-wide cycling destination to provincial ministers at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Whistler last week. But Tourism Penticton, an entity of the city, already...

Challenge accepted: Symonds defends triathlon title
PENTICTON - Family, friends, residents and volunteers lined the streets of Penticton yesterday to cheer on the 1,200 athletes that participated in the second Challenge triathlon, and to watch Penticton’s own Jeff Symonds defend his title as champion of the race. Symonds was the first to tear down the finish line ribbon after swimming, cycling...