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PENTICTON - Charging out-of-town visitors higher recreational fees is out of the question for city council. Penticton's leadership voted to keep the recreational fee structure the same as it was. These would be fees to use the municipal pool and other resources. Recreation manager Chuck Loewen and city staff found there is too much risk...

PENTICTON - A politician will make the news by donating roughly $30,000 back to the taxpayers and no, it is not one of the Canadian senators currently under investigation for fraud. Former mayor and MLA Dan Ashton pledged to cover Penticton's byelection costs, up to $35,000, if he resigned to run as the Liberal candidate...

PENTICTON - Several city staff were surprised about tomorrow's special council meeting about a proposed prison. B.C. Corrections and Ministry of Justice officials will give a presentation on the proposed Okanagan prison tomorrow morning, 9 a.m., in city hall council chambers which the public is invited to attend. The information was found on the city's...

PENTICTON - The city has become a testing ground for never-before seen transit buses. The two 27.5 foot Vicinity buses seen circling around Penticton's most used transit routes were acquired for efficiency and lower costs. They are also brand-new machines built from the ground up and their performance will be monitored closely. Berry and Smith...

PENTICTON - They only come out at night, mostly, but that shouldn't make worms scary. The slimy critters will poke their heads out of the earth whenever it's cool and damp in order to forage. This and other facts will be taught at a free worm composting workshop tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Regional...

SUMMERLAND - Permission for building one turbine was given even though some on the Regional District Okanagan Similkameen board objected. Zero Emission Energy Developments will be erecting 14 wind turbines, transmission lines, laying down access roads and adding associated structures. One of the proposed sites, with wind turbines measuring 145 metres in height with three...

PENTICTON - The sentencing of a man guilty of viciously beating two others for no apparent reason was delayed at Penticton Provincial Court today. Judge Gregory Koturbash said he needed more time to consider the fate of Marcus Wilfred Sheena, 29, who has plead guilty to several assault charges committed on Sept. 17, 2011. On...

"I MUST RESIST ANY TEMPTATION TO LOCK YOU UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY." PENTICTON - A judge resisted throwing away the key on a man who used a hammer and a knife to beat and cut two victims and instead sentenced him in provincial court today to two years in federal prison. Marcus Wilfred...

PENTICTON - Many Penticton adults are in the dark when it comes to realizing how many children live in poverty. About the only ones on the ball are adults who work with young people while "the rest of us have our heads in the sand," Community Foundation of the South Okanagan executive director Aaron McRann...

PENTICTON - There are no pieces to pick up for the family of a murdered Penticton woman because all she possessed was inside the home of the man who was convicted of killing her, and access was denied. When Lynn Kalmring was murdered by her common-law spouse Keith Wiens, her family didn't just lose a...

PENTICTON - Maybe we should be afraid of Friday the 13th—that's the date summer was murdered in the South Okanagan. Friday, Sept.13 was the hottest day of the month at 28.9 Celsius, but the thermometer started bleeding out after that, falling almost four degrees by Sept. 16. It never recovered. September was already in poor...