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PENTICTON - Roughly twice the estimated amount of tailing water spilled into the Tulameen River on Aug. 24 according to a review of the incident. The tailing pond of the Basin Coal Mine, which employs about 40 people on-site, overflowed and 6,500 gallons spilled into a gulch before heading out to the Tulameen River which...

PENTICTON - The new top cop wants to remove the worst prolific offenders from the crime equation. Supt. Kevin Hewco is the new RCMP regional commander in charge of the Penticton, Summerland, Oliver, Keremeos and Princeton detachments. The 27-year-vet says 40 or more per cent of crimes are committed by a fraction of the criminal...

Skaha Beach was turned into a dragon boat town this weekend with dozens of tents and thousands of athletes. The 2013 Raymond James Penticton Dragon Boat Festival is more than just a competition stocked with hard-core athletes who carried paddles in sheaths on their backs.  It was also a time to celebrate as athletes and...

PENTICTON - Different generations of hockey players played together outside the South Okanagan Event Centre for the Vancouver Canucks Young Stars Classic. For the past week prospects competed for spots on the Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, San Jose Sharks, Winnipeg Jets and the Vancouver Canucks. Earlier on Sunday there was a hockey clinic where younger players...

PENTICTON - Children will get to shake the hands of NHL hockey heroes at the tail end of the Vancouver Canucks Young Stars Classic this weekend. The week-long hockey camp at the South Okanagan Event Centre will have prospects competing for spots on the Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, San Jose Sharks, Winnipeg Jets and the...

SOUTH OKANAGAN - A new fad diet urges customers to trim their energy usage to not only save money but also the environment. Fortis B.C. wants to push its South Okanagan Similkameen Energy Diet and the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen signed up at Thursday's district meeting to help with grants for willing residents. The first...

PENTICTON - A drunk driver struck and killed a former Penticton man in Nanaimo on Sunday, Sept. 1. Tyler Edwards, 34, was heading northbound on a Yamaha motorcycle on Stewart Avenue when the accident occurred. Edwards entered the fast lane to pass a slower moving truck. A Nanaimo man, 61, driving a Jeep stopped at...

PENTICTON - Every year nearly two dozen RCMP officers jump on their bikes to cycle from Kelowna to Penticton to Osoyoos and back to Kelowna for their Cops for Kids fundraising campaign. This year's team made a stop at Boston Pizza on Main Street where the owner donated $2,000 to the cause, team captain and...

HIGH STREAM ADVISORY NOW LIFTED: B.C. RIVER FORECAST CENTRE PENTICTON - Environment Canada might have recorded no rain last night but Twitter was all wet. People were tweeting about the heavy rain and thunderstorms that continued until early this morning. A few say they were woken up by the blasts of wind. A high stream...

PENTICTON - A female black bear and her cub trashed some Naramata garbage bins for easy meals this weekend. WildSafe B.C. co-ordinator Zoe Kirk was called about the bruins eating out of garbage cans on Saturday evening. She along with local volunteer Craig Henderson picked up the loose trash and put it into a bear-proof...

PENTICTON - Council's message of not tolerating messy properties was heard loud and clear at Tuesday's council meeting. Real estate agent Rick Appleton says the owners of 555 Wade Ave. East, Ming Leung and Shun Yi Chen, will clean the site. The property was one of two on the city's hit list with the other...

PENTICTON - The sun was shining and a deck was burning for one resident on Sunday morning. A deck at a Veteran Drive's residence caught fire shortly before 11:51 a.m. There were reports of smoke fire chief Wayne Williams says but some thought it was coming from a barbecue. A neighbour spotted the burning deck and...

PENTICTON - If you think you're not being taxed enough there's an app for that. Penticton launched a survey Tuesday to find out what citizens think about their community and whether they would support more taxes for more revenue. The survey also has boxes for how friendly city staff are, how quickly the new patient...

PRINCETON - A coal mining company hopes silt dams and silt fencing will mean no more particulates entering the Tulameen River. Coalmont Energy Corp. placed two temporary silt dams and four silt fencing stations along Collins Gulch following Aug. 24's 24,605 litre spill of coal mine tailing water. The catching devices were installed Saturday and...