Elevate your local knowledge

Sign up for the iNFOnews newsletter today!

Select Region

Selecting your primary region ensures you get the stories that matter to you first.

Pnjul2815

Want quick attention to Fortis over-billing? Go to the media

WORKED FOR THIS GUY KELOWNA – Media attention got an almost immediate result for a local celebrity who went to the news with a $4,500 power bill for a cabin that wasn’t even there. Gary Fong, a world-famous photographer and inventor made headlines last week when he went public with a massive bill for his...

Vintage warbird arrives in Penticton

PENTICTON - Penticton and South Okanagan residents have an opportunity to get up close to a vintage war machine this week. A Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing Aviation Museum aircrew arrived in the city Monday morning, July 27, with the museum’s 'Sentimental Journey,' the museum’s fully restored B-17. The plane will be in Penticton until...

Liquor policy changes good news for local wineries

PENTICTON - Local wineries continue to benefit from promised changes made to the liquor act by the provincial government. Penticton MLA Dan Ashton announced liquor policy changes that will make it easier for wineries to hold special occasions such as weddings at Painted Rock Estate Winery this morning, July 28. “Special occasion licenses were an...

Migrant workers still missing from Okanagan farm a month later

VERNON - Four migrant workers from Mexico have still not been found a month after an Okanagan farm owner reported the men missing. Huizar Soto Uriel, 37, Isaac Jimenez, 28, Juvenal Rios Binedo, 39, and Juan Manual Sanchez Gallegos, 30, entered Canada on June 16, 2015. On June 26 the foursome departed the farm where...

Kamloops jail ordered to flag inmates with a history of violence: WorkSafe B.C.

KAMLOOPS - WorkSafe B.C. ordered administrators at the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre to flag or identify violent offenders after an inspector discovered there wasn't a proper system in place to warn corrections officers of a potential assault. Inspector Vincent Strain prepared his report and order to create a new flagging system after an inmate assaulted...

Canucks Young Stars Classic singles and doubles on sale this week

PENTICTON - Tickets to this year’s 2015 Vancouver Canucks Young Stars Classics are selling fast and as a result single tickets are going on sale earlier than usual. Demand has been so strong the single and double header tickets will be made available for purchase two weeks earlier than normally scheduled. Tickets go on sale...

5,700 Shania Twain tickets sell out in under five minutes

KELOWNA – Fans of Shania Twain will be disappointed to find out that tickets for her final show at Prospera Place on Oct. 27 sold out in less than five minutes last week. Twain’s performance this fall is the last stop on what she has announced will be her last tour. Rock This Country began...