Before 8am Friday Location: 7500 block of Highway 97  – north of Oliver near Pineridge. SUV rolled in orchard. Problem with roadway not determined. No injuries. Police, fire and EMS on the scene.

4:22 pm Thursday – first report Mobile home on fire, explosions heard, one unconfirmed report of death Location: 4505 McLean Creek Rd (Peach Cliff Estates) Crews called: Ok Falls FD with Kaleden FD to assist. RCMP, Ambulance (EMS) and Coroner’s service responded to the fire scene Picture source: Castanet

The Ministry of Forests is proposing new limits to mule deer hunting regulations to help declining buck populations in parts of the B.C. Interior. As part of a regulation change currently open to public feedback, the province is proposing a limit to the number of mule-deer bucks –  hunters can bag in the Thompson, Kootenay, Cariboo, Skeena, Omineca, […]

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Thanks to Linda Isaak (Becker) Time frame not known – this is Tucelnuit Lake looking west from an airplane view 2. Is south of Testlinda Creek 3. Is north of Vaseux Lake

Good afternoon, the Town is actively working with the developer (Oliver Landings) to enable the stop work orders to be removed. Cathy Cowan Chief Administrative Officer Town of Oliver

  The Town of Osoyoos announced that Gina MacKay has been hired as the new director of planning and development services. MacKay comes from the Lower Mainland, where she was the manager of long range planning and special projects for the District of Mission. In that role, MacKay prepared the community’s new official community plan, […]

Claire and Ed Festel left a Whitehorse apartment building in their will to the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation. The building in Whitehorse was recently sold for more than $1 million to help provide medical equipment for the Penticton Regional Hospital expansion. Both have passed away and the funds designated.