Residents escape All the residents of an Osoyoos rooming house escaped unharmed from a late morning house fire just north of the town boundary. The fire began about 10:30 from a so-far unknown cause. The outside of the structure remained standing, but the building was clearly gutted as Osoyoos Fire Department firefighters mopped up shortly […]

Makeover eyed for aging Oliver Arena Parks and Recreation is eyeing a complete face-lift for the aging Oliver Arena and is enlisting the town and the regional district to help get a federal grant to cover three-quarters of the multi-million-dollar project. Parks and recreation manager Carol Sheridan told council Monday that the concrete slab and […]

Town will hear province’s pot pitch Council agreed Monday to hear a proposal from the province to open a cannabis retail outlet in the town. The town recently got a letter from the Liquor Distribution Branch – as did every other town with a liquor store – presenting an overview of what a government cannabis […]

Weapons Call Leads to Discovery of Explosives On November 24, 2018, at 1710 hours, Osoyoos RCMP and Penticton RCMP Dog Services responded to a report of a male who pointed a firearm and threatened a victim at a residence in the 14000 block of 97 Ave.  During the investigation police conducted a search of the residence […]

By ROY WOOD Councillor Dave Mattes didn’t get the oversight of shared-service budgets he was hoping for, but he got the rest of council to agree that it should at least see the budgets before they go to the RDOS. In a notice of motion submitted in September, Mattes sought a council policy to ensure […]

  By ROY WOOD In an ongoing and so-far fruitless effort to ensure the long-term viability of the South Okanagan General Hospital’s (SOGH) emergency room, three physicians on Monday sought support from Oliver town council. Drs. Madia Smallwood, Peter Entwistle and Jacob Bellingan painted a bleak picture of the current state of affairs where a […]