By ROY WOOD The town’s efforts to encourage industrial development at the lands near the Osoyoos airport are apparently bearing some fruit as a proposal has been made for a new business on the site. An un-named potential purchaser of an industrial lot wants a rezoning to allow operation of an automotive repair and […]
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Dusty wind
Thanks to all who have sent pictures in this afternoon This one by Marjo Koskinen
Birds On the Dyke at Oliver
Lewis’s Woodpecker. By Michael Barry Lancaster Lewis’s Woodpecker like the Yellow-breasted Chat is another charismatic and enigmatic part of the bird population in the Okanagan. It is part of a larger population in the USA but occupies the BC interior as far north as Cache Creek mainly in open Ponderosa Pine forest. In BC the […]
$458 thousand for Princeton Airport
Princeton Regional Airport will be receiving a grant of $457,939 to fund upgrades under the B.C. Air Access program announced Linda Larson, MLA for Boundary-Similkameen. The funding will Resurface existing runway and install wildlife fencing at the airport. “This funding is very well deserved” said Larson. “Installing fencing around the airport as well as improving […]
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Mounties “get their man”
Cpl. Brian Evans of the Oliver Detachment reports a suspect involved with an incident last week has been arrested and appears in court today in Penticton 34 year old Jason Adam Poulin of Oliver charged with one count of possession of stolen property over $5000, one count of possession of stolen property under $5000 and […]






