Who is affected? British Columbia is transitioning responsibility for end-of-life management of packaging and printed paper (PPP) from governments and their taxpayers to industry and their consumers. As part of this approach, producers (companies and organizations that supply PPP to residential consumers) were required, under the BC Recycling Regulation, to have or be part of […]

Oliver Town Council has grant the local Search and Rescue organization a 20 year lease for a dollar a year and will build a sewer line to serve several pieces of property on Cessna Street. The value of the land granted is 168 thousand dollars. The Town will also commit up to $100 thousand to get […]

Water bills sent to 143 property owners asking them to pay more for water and the ensuring reaction came before Oliver Town Council Monday. Those bills sent out in July, in most cases, was the first anyone knew of the new charges for water on property in the rural area, less than 1/2 acre and […]

The case involves Brian Douglas Louie, convicted last year, in connection with a violent attack on a women on the reservation at Oliver. An application for a mistrial  was aired Monday in a Penticton court room. Micah Rankin, a lawyer from Kamloops, said the grounds for a mistrial in the Brian Douglas Louie case were based […]

ODN Follow-up A large number of salamanders found dead in a swimming pool south of Oliver appear to be endangered tiger salamanders, according to a biologist with the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. Ecosystems biologist Orville Dyer said they are looking into how the 22 salamanders ended up in the pool, but it’s likely […]