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The City of Penticton will begin designing and costing out a trail route from near the Penticton Creek Reservoir up into Campbell Mountain, although where the funding to pay for the entire cost of the pathway will come from is still uncertain.

Negotiations have failed between the Town of Osoyoos and the group contracted to run Desert Park, leaving it up in the air as to what will happen with the site.

With almost 1,000 vehicles participating there was something for every car lover at the PeachCity Beach Cruise

Penticton council has put a freeze on a proposal to construct a two-storey development in the 800 block of Winnipeg Street after hearing from upset residents regarding the building’s design.

A Penticton man who won an appeal on his first-degree murder conviction will have a second trial in 2012.

Many city businesses were rockin’ and rollin’ all the way to the bank Monday morning thanks to a pair of hugely successful weekend events.

Vehicles and a shed were damaged in a fire on Saturday that sent billowing black smoke into the Penticton sky near the airport.

Despite protests and a filibuster by the federal NDP to delay its passage through Parliament, the Conservative government passed back-to-work legislation, ordering Canada Post and postal workers to get back to the business of delivering the mail.

It will take weeks to repair multiple road and highway washouts caused by a once-in-40-years rainstorm in northeast B.C.

In Penticton, the posties marched from the main post office on Industrial Avenue to the downtown offices of Okanagan Coquihalla MP Dan Albas to rally on the steps of the Nanaimo Square building containing his office.