The Oliver Osoyoos Search and Rescue team (OOSAR) typically undertakes two to three winter searches annually since their inception in 1975.  Every year, at least one of these searches involves lost or injured snowmobilers. OOSAR Search Manager Rob Selsing states, “Typically, it is males we end up searching for ranging in age from young adult […]

By ROY WOOD More than 400 people crowded the main room at the Oliver Community Centre this evening to share ideas and vent frustration at what most of them see as a growing crime problem in the South Okanagan. While there was little by way of hard numbers or crime statistics, there was an obvious […]

Crime forum on at Community Hall in Oliver Tuesday evening News is in the turnout – 400 plus according to organizer Michael Guthrie Police, prison officials, elected officials and a whole lot of concerned people from Osoyoos, Oliver and OK Falls. A the outset of meeting moderator Fred Steele asked how many of you have […]

Dick Cannings is not a coward – he knows what happens when you walk into a swarm of hornets. The local MP made it known he was coming to Oliver and the “No Park” folk made full use of the opportunity to have an open-forum outside of a local café on Fairview Rd. Estimate of […]

2018 receipant of the Governor General’s Bronze Medal for all round secondary school student in her class with a very high academic standing. Simi was a Youth Ambassador 2016-2017. She plans on attending in-residence at UBC Vancouver to obtain a B.Sc. Degree specializing in micro-biology. *** Lord Dufferin, Canada’s third Governor General after Confederation, created […]