Joe Fries

Three varieties of non-browning Arctic apples developed by a Summerland-based company are now rolling off the production line at a new 110,000-square-foot packinghouse in Washington State.

A self-described sex addict who’s facing jail time for possessing child pornography pleaded Monday with a Penticton judge for a conditional sentence of house arrest.

Seven years after a local government began hunting for a home for a regional food-waste composting facility, a site was finally confirmed this week, along with a contract to oversee

A nine-month jail sentence handed down Thursday should serve as a warning to others who might be “merely tempted to take a peek” at child pornography, said a Penticton judge.

Summerland is set to become the first Okanagan community to offer residential curbside pickup of organic food waste when it launches the program in April, well ahead of larger centres

Summerland’s mayor is confident community members will come to appreciate curbside pickup of organic food waste just the same as millions of other British Columbians who have already made the

Operators of Penticton’s well-travelled emergency winter shelter are hoping to put down roots somewhere in the community.

A new film set in Penticton premieres in its hometown theatre this Thursday, May 2.

Human trafficking doesn’t just happen in big cities, says an anti-exploitation advocate and retired teacher who got her start 45 years ago at Southern Okanagan Secondary School in Oliver.

Donna Benson realized that research into psychedelic drugs for therapeutic use had finally hit the mainstream when the subject became the talk of a normally staid conference of psychiatrists last