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Flames at the site next to Highway 97 broke out just before 7 a.m. No one was injured, according to the city, but a structure was destroyed.

'We’re seeing an upward trend in reported domestic violence incidents locally of almost 20 per cent in 2025 from 2024,' Penticton RCMP Supt. Beth McAndie said.

On Sept. 5, 2021, a young man was found critically injured on a field at Penticton Secondary School. He later died in hospital.

Penticton Soupateria, a volunteer-driven soup kitchen on Orchard Avenue, received an eviction notice last week, effective May 31.

Despite signage prohibiting fire activity in the area, three blazes have erupted at the encampment in just the past two weeks.

According to the fire chief, crews have responded to fire-related calls at the encampment about 80 times since last March.

Police are asking anyone who witnessed the incident in the 200-block of Orchard Avenue or has additional information to contact Penticton RCMP.

Canadian flags are flying at half-mast across the Okanagan in the wake of the shooting tragedy in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

City of Kelowna officials say the QR codes were not authorized by either the municipality or its mobile payment provider, PayByPhone.

It was a birthday occasion the grieving family of Alexa Knodel, who was found deceased this past spring, never imagined they would be marking with this type of tribute.

“It wasn’t a shock, it was more like, ‘Okay, when is the next big one going to happen?’” said Penticton resident, Kandace Sztepanacz.

As of this week, gas prices in Princeton are hovering around $1.41 per litre, roughly 10 to 20 cents higher than nearby cities in the regional district.

The 50-unit tiny home community would have been built on a city-owned parcel of land near Dartmouth Road and Dartmouth Drive and funded by the provincial government.

Dallas Brodie was attempting to speak outside the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, but was shouted down by the crowd.

Despite a growing homelessness problem in the South Okanagan city, council voted 4-2 against the project and the millions of provincial dollars that would come along with it.

The graffiti incident is just the latest in a series of problems impacting the charity, including thefts of donated items left at the store's back door.

'The fines range from $30 to $500. The fines can be enforced by both RCMP and bylaw, but the discriminatory harassment one can only be done by RCMP.'

Plans to transform a parcel of land into a tiny home community for the homeless in Penticton have been put on hold.

Winter hasn't officially arrived yet, but heavy snow, rainfall and winter storm warnings are in effect across Canada with up to 40 cm of snow possible in some eastern regions.

The City of Penticton wants to build a tiny home community for the unhoused population on a piece of land along Dartmouth Road.