Obituary for the late Ralph Raymond Riley March 13, 1926 – April 17, 2019 On Wednesday, April 17, Mr. Ralph Raymond Riley of Oliver and former long-time resident of Midway passed away peacefully at McKinney Place Extended Care at the age of 93 years. He was predeceased by his daughter Donna; son Greg; siblings Charles, […]

British Columbia Indigenous youth selected for international internships Trenton Manossa-Gabriel (27 years old) from Oliver are among 20 Indigenous interns from across Canada selected to participate in this internship. This program chooses Canadian Indigenous youth to work and live overseas with a non-profit organization. This includes organizations in Costa Rica, Kenya, Guyana, Myanmar, and Nepal. […]

How would you like to Drive to Provide? Highway to Healing Support Society is preparing for their 2nd Annual FUN golf tournament. In order to continue to fund families from Osoyoos, Oliver and OK Falls who have to travel to obtain medical care for their children, H2H will host this 22 team fund raising tournament. […]

OSOYOOS COUNCIL BRIEFS No room for park petition on AGM agenda Dustin Stephens had hoped to present a petition to the Osoyoos Annual General Meeting this afternoon, asking council to reconsider its decision not to support a referendum on the proposed national park reserve in the South Okanagan. Stephens, a board member of the South […]

  By ROY WOOD The Desert Park Society had its request for financial support rejected by Osoyoos council this afternoon and was also cautioned about its plans for a year-round RV campground on its West Bench site. The society asked council last month for a waiver of about $3,000 in water and sewer charges, about […]

  By ROY WOOD An attempt to enlist Osoyoos council support for an exclusion from the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) of the last developable property on the town’s East Bench was rejected this afternoon. The discussion surrounding the exclusion proposal revealed something of a rift on council on the appropriate role of the Agricultural Land […]

by Roy Wood Osoyoos has hired a new chief administrative officer and a new fire chief, it was announced today. New CAO Allan Chabot comes to the town from Revelstoke, where he has served in the same position since 2015. He has worked in local government for more than 30 years and will take over […]

On June 17, 2019 the Osoyoos RCMP received a report of a suspicious Ford F350 towing a flat deck trailer loaded with an industrial generator on Whitetail Road, 15kms east of Osoyoos. The descriptors of the truck and trailer matched ones that were reported stolen out of Kelowna on June 14 and the generator matched […]