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CHILD FOUND AT BUST PLACED WITH FAMILY REPRESENTATIVE PENTICTON - A toddler was caught in the middle of a drug bust Wednesday at an apartment building in the 900 block of Fairview Road. RCMP officers arrested Mandy Jo Squakin, 28, and an unidentified man, 28, using a search warrant for their apartment and in the...

PENTICTON - A scheduling mix-up means a preliminary hearing for Princeton resident John Ike Koopmans, who is facing two counts of murder, will be delayed. Koopmans, 49 is accused of two counts of murder in connection to the deaths of Robert Wharton, 44, and Rose Fox, 32, as well as one count of attempted murder....

PENTICTON -  There'll be no new dock for the Okanagan Lake shoreline because of possible dangers boats can pose to swimmers. The city's waterfront enhancement committee killed the suggestion of a new dock and day-moorage area built near the SS Sicamous. The idea was forwarded to the committee through public input sessions held earlier this...

PENTICTON - The city's plan to add green bike lanes to Ellis Street is making a few business owners see red. Penticton's council chambers were filled Tuesday night with annoyed business owners and managers as well as cyclist-enthusiasts over the plan to insert green bike lane strips on Ellis Street. Attendees said they were upset...

PENTICTON - Last week's recovery of a man's body from Okanagan Lake can at least bring some closure to his family, a rescue official said. The man has been identified by the B.C. Coroner's office as Dominic Cox, 25. He was pulled out of Okanagan Lake on Oct. 10. Penticton Search and Rescue official Dale...

PENTICTON - Starving is no way to start a school day. Children should be worried about their grades and not about when their next meals are coming from. Volunteers with the Breakfast Learning Club work hard to make that happen but even they can fall short when volunteers vanish due to vacations or other commitments....

PENTICTON - Wines and hockey pucks will be poured and dropped respectively at the South Okanagan Event Centre this weekend. The Valley First Grand Finale Consumer Tastings event, the oldest and largest wine event of the Okanagan Fall Wine Festival, will run tonight and tomorrow at the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre. More than 80...

PENTICTON - Challenge Penticton cut a player from the team to make room for more specialized positions. General manager Barb Haynes was hired for Challenge Penticton's inaugural year that saw 1,400 athletes swim, bike and run in and around the city. The non-profit Penticton Triathlon Race Society released her from the position last week. Also...

PENTICTON - The more the merrier is proving true for the Penticton portion of the Sensible B.C. cannabis referendum campaign. The push to get signatures to trigger a referendum on legalizing marijuana has been going well in its second month Sensible B.C. Penticton and Boundary-Similkameen ridings co-ordinator Amanda Stewart said. Sensible B.C. has been authorized...

PENTICTON - A convicted sex offender who bit off his girlfriend's labia was hopping mad when the judge ruled his previous trial was a fair one and there'll be no mistrial. When Judge Meg Shaw told Brian Douglas Louie who appeared in Penticton provincial court via video today, his convictions will stick, he jumped from...

"THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO WILL ALWAYS BE CRIMINALS." PENTICTON - Justice ministry staff spent equal time explaining what the new Okanagan Correctional Centre is and what it is not to two different groups this week. The new $250-million centre will be built and completed on Osoyoos Indian Band land by 2016 to house 360...

PENTICTON - Most places of worship are safe from the tax-man for the next three years but the Salvation Army will have to pay a tithe. The city removed nine not-for-profits off its tax exemption list and cautioned these and all other groups lucky enough to still receive the exemption "gift" to budget with caution....