Penticton News Today & Local Events

It's not the most expensive of the 25 city council investigations, but it could be the most costly for Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson.

Police said the scam is popping up around the country.

A Summerland man with no prior criminal record has been sentenced to six months in jail after assaulting another man with a walking stick and smashing the windshield of his vehicle nearly four years ago.

“I drove by it to work in the morning and saw it and thought it was really weird."

The longest-running free family festival in Western Canada returns with five days of free family fun, with most of the festivities centred around Okanagan Lake Park in downtown Penticton.

The office was empty on the afternoon of Aug. 5, and OneBC’s chief of staff Tim Thielmann declined to say when exactly it opened.

"They didn't just take my money, they took my future."

“I encourage everyone to dress up in their best western swag and come kick up their heels."

There were 3,000 people in 100 different communities in B.C. who answered questions on a survey about what makes them want to leave the province.

Nature lovers and homeowners in Kamloops and the Okanagan are finding countless fascinating species from the tiny jumping spiders to the giant house spider.

“For the people who grew up never knowing, finding out that information can be overwhelming but also incredibly healing."

"Having a mayor we have now in that chair has emboldened people to be more confrontational, and certainly the things I have to consider are much different this term than last term."

The four brothers have spent years battling over millions of dollars of real estate.

“There were tens of thousands of them, if not hundreds of thousands."