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New web show lets you sip and learn about Okanagan wine in your slippers

SUMMERLAND – Looking for an alternative to stuffy shows that teach you about the Okanagan’s favourite beverage? There’s a new local wine review show hosted by a cast of colourful characters that features interviews and information about the Okanagan’s best wines and wineries. Sipping with Slippers premiered on YouTube in late September. They recently released...

Dying Nsyilxcn language given new life in classroom

OKANAGAN - Reviving an endangered language is a daunting task but Syilx Language House is going to try to do just that with Nsyilxcn, the Okanagan language. Thirteen beginning students have signed on with five co-teachers, who are also students. Lead teacher Michele Johnson says in a media release there are fewer than 100 fluent...

UPDATE: Penticton car crash victim dies in hospital

PENTICTON - One of the two people seriously injured following a head-on crash in Penticton last night has died in hospital. RCMP say the crash happened at about 7 p.m., Oct. 9, on Lakeside Road. “A Ford pickup truck, which was travelling south, and a Kia car, which was travelling north, hit head-on,” Const. Michael...

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...