Including Friday’s announcement from Interior Health, the region’s coronavirus-related death total since the pandemic began is now at 46.

Penticton RCMP say a 27-year-old man was transported to hospital on the evening of Jan. 7, suffering from an apparent stab wound.

Emergency crews rushed to Penticton’s Main Street Tuesday evening after a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle.

Police have arrested a Penticton man for local mail theft and fraud, and they’re looking to return a birthday card to its rightful owner.

Karch is one of 5,000 people currently on a centralized waitlist managed by the South Okanagan Similkameen Division of Family Practice.

The Vernon subregion saw a rise in its weekly case total, but the Penticton subregion saw a decrease from the week prior.

The Interior Health subregion that had the second most amount of cases from Dec. 20 to 26 was Vernon with 48, followed by Penticton (31), Kamloops (27) and Revelstoke (22).

With the 57 new cases, the Interior Health region’s total number of cases rose to 3,806. Notably, though, 3,142 have recovered, with 636 cases considered active.

In the Central Okanagan, the City of Kelowna’s annual Christmas tree drop-off program runs Dec. 27 to Jan. 31 at the Glenmore landfill.

A South Okanagan pled guilty to causing a crash along Highway 97 in 2017. The crash injured several people. The man was sentenced to nine months in jail.