Art runs rampant during the Wine Capital Art Walk on Saturday May 11, on what is becoming Oliver’s funkiest little street. From a beatnik bistro at the Oliver Legion at the north end of Station Street, to a hip artisan market at Oliver Eats near the south end, Oliver’s arts community will be “busting out […]

Proposed national park reserve in the South Okanagan-Similkameen – “What We Heard” Report – Public Information Sessions In support of its commitment to openness and transparency, Parks Canada will be hosting public information sessions to share feedback received during the public consultations on the proposed national park reserve in the South Okanagan-Similkameen. Parks Canada undertook […]

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Is this crown land or privately owned? This road down hillside scaring the view observed recently with questions in mind. Do you know?

” ……I’m not sure it’s that helpful because if the names of victims aren’t made public then it’s really neighbourhood gossip and social media that might fill in some erroneous information and I don’t think that’s really what the public needs”… New RCMP  privacy (publication of names) policy affects small communities the most In small […]

  By ROY WOOD Osoyoos will lobby Ottawa and Victoria for the right to continue uprooting Eurasian milfoil despite fears for the future of an at-risk native freshwater mollusc called the Rocky Mountain Ridged Mussel (RMRM). Responding to a request from the Okanagan Basin Water Board (OBWB), council this afternoon agreed to send letters to […]

  By ROY WOOD Osoyoos adopted its tax rates bylaw this afternoon, making official the 2.93%-per-cent increase in property taxes over last year. The deadline for the approval, set by the provincial government, is May 15. The average assessment for a single-family residential property in Osoyoos is $429,687, on which the owner will pay a […]