Keremeos
Competition pow wow returns to the Similkameen
PENTICTON – A weekend of colourful native culture comes to the Similkameen Valley next weekend…
Keremeos seeks province’s help to stop messy, riverbed campers
KEREMEOS – The Village of Keremeos is asking the province for an amendment to the…
UPDATE: Highway 3A reopens east of Keremeos
KEREMEOS – Highway 3A near Keremeos has reopened to single lane alternating traffic this afternoon,…
Youth treatment facility to reopen near Keremeos
KEREMEOS – A residential treatment facility for addicted youth is being resurrected in the Similkameen.…
Enhanced health services coming to rural Interior Health communities
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – A program offering paramedicine to rural residents around the province is expanding to…
Public invited to review Phase 2 of the Similkameen Watershed Plan
PENTICTON – The Similkameen Valley Planning Committee is inviting residents of the Similkameen Valley to…
Keremeos opts out of community forest partnership
PENTICTON – The Village of Keremeos has decided to opt out of a 10 year…
Outdoor fitness equipment trend spreading through South Okanagan
KEREMEOS – As communities in the Okanagan and Similkameen increasingly embrace the movement towards outdoor…
Keremeos man catches rockslide on video
KEREMEOS – A local man caught a rockslide near Keremeos in the South Okanagan yesterday…
Keremeos joins growing list of communities with fast charging stations
PENTICTON – Keremeos joins a lengthening list of South Okanagan communities supplying a fast charging…
Smaller South Okanagan communities benefit from age-friendly grants
PENTICTON - The province is helping 28 B.C. communities help their resident seniors stay mobile, active and socially connected. Okanagan Falls and Keremeos are two local communities benefitting from 2016 Age-friendly Community Planning and Project grants. Keremeos has been awarded $20,000 to help the village build an age-friendly outdoor fitness park to provide additional fitness...
Keremeos self storage lockers targeted by thieves
PENTICTON - Several customers are missing items following a break in at a Keremeos self storage compound. Thieves cut locks on several units in the Keremeos self storage facility, located on Veterans Avenue sometime between 10 p.m., Monday, Dec. 20, and 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 21, Keremeos RCMP Cpl. Kathleen Thien says. A chain link fence...
Injured hunter rescued by helicopter near Keremeos
PENTICTON – A hunter with a serious cut was rescued by Penticton Search and Rescue team and a B.C. Ambulance helicopter yesterday. RCMP and B.C. Ambulance were called at about 11 a.m., Oct. 1, about a 39-year-old man had suffered a serious cut while hunting with a group of three others in the Ashnola River...
Psychotic episode resulted from ‘controlling’ house guest: Lawyer
PENTICTON - A Keremeos man will not serve jail time for throwing rocks through a window of the Keremeos RCMP detachment. Robert Polovnikoff faced Judge Gale Sinclair on Wednesday, August 5 facing a mischief charge following a bizarre day in Keremeos. Crown Prosecutor Kurt Frolik said Polovnikoff believed someone had planted a bomb in the...
Hikers missing for seven days in the backcountry tell their story
KEREMEOS – An Ontario couple who went missing in the Similkameen Valley southwest of Keremeos late last month have have decided to share their experience. Rick Moynan and Lynne Carmody were first declared missing by staff at Cathedral Lakes Lodge when they did not return from hiking by supper time, Monday, June 22. What followed...