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Fire destroys Cawston fruit stand
PENTICTON – Keremeos firefighters battled a blaze at a fruit stand in Cawston last night.…
SOUTH OKANAGAN HISTORY: The wintery death of Oliver pioneer Jim Madden
OLIVER – A pioneer resident of the Oliver area who once made his living cutting…
Penticton offender’s alcoholism treatment delays sentencing
PENTICTON – A Penticton man was given a final opportunity to prove he was serious…
Penticton prolific offender granted bail
PENTICTON – A Penticton man, with a long list of previous offences, was back in…
Minimum sentence for firing shotgun and breaking into Penticton school
PENTICTON – A man who fired his shotgun into a telephone and the adjoining wall…
New funding feeds South Okanagan medical research
PENTICTON – A team of local medical researchers has attracted grant funding from the Canadian…
Penticton man gets jail time for indecent exposure
PENTICTON – A Penticton man who exposed himself to a mother and two children will…
Battle brewing over Fortis B.C. electrical rate system
PENTICTON – A South Okanagan resident is joining forces with the regional district in a…
Parachute teams deployed to battle Okanagan wildfires
PENTICTON – A group of professional wildfire fighters rarely seen in the Okanagan dropped in…
Munson Mountain wedding woes for couple after it collides with Penticton Multisport event
PENTICTON – A Summerland bride and groom’s big day was derailed by the seemingly inexplicable…
Kaleden’s long-serving fire chief announces retirement
PENTICTON – It’s the end of an era for the Kaleden Volunteer Fire Department as…
Keremeos man gets jail time for assaulting his girlfriend
CONTENT ADVISORY PENTICTON – A Keremeos man’s methamphetamine-fuelled behaviour has put him behind bars. Matthew…
FLOOD WATCH 2017: Is anyone going to fix this South Okanagan dike before it’s too late?
CAWSTON – Cawston's regional district representative is concerned about the state of a section of…
Controlling the flow of water through the Okanagan Lake system an imperfect science
OKANAGAN – It’s shaping up to be a high water year in the Okanagan, but…
Penticton city council to look at designated launch areas for non-motorized watercraft
PENTICTON – Launching a personal, non-motorized watercraft into Okanagan Lake could become more complicated in…
Human resources manager latest senior bureaucrat leaving Penticton City Hall
PENTICTON – Another senior staffer is leaving the employ of the City of Penticton. Mayor…
Kelowna man who hit a 15-year-old gets a conditional discharge for the Penticton assault
PENTICTON – A Kelowna man will not serve jail time for “lashing out” at his…
Archduke’s Penticton hunting trip comes to a stormy conclusion
PART FOUR OF A FOUR PART SERIES READ PART THREE OF THE SERIES HERE: Archduke's…
Archduke’s cold forces early end to Penticton hunting trip
PART THREE OF A FOUR PART SERIES A CASE OF THE SNIFFLES GETS WORSE AND…
Penticton pioneer Tom Ellis fails to impress Austrian Archduke
PART TWO OF A FOUR PART SERIES THE ARCHDUKE IS A HARD MAN TO SATISFY…
Before his 1914 assassination ignited WWI, Archduke Ferdinand was one of the Okanagan’s first tourists
PART ONE OF A FOUR PART SERIES PENTICTON WAS LITTLE MORE THAN TOM ELLIS'S RANCH…
Fraudster gets conditional sentence for Summerland cheque cashing scam
PENTICTON – A man who used a Summerland organization’s chequebook to write cheques to himself…
Suspended Penticton driver sees the light following dual convictions
PENTICTON – A Penticton woman who “took the cure” according to her lawyer received a…
Penticton high school student pleads guilty to assaulting former friend
PENTICTON – Two Penticton high school students, who were once friends, were in court today…