With a marketing plan underway, the Vancouver Canucks’ Young Stars tournament in Penticton is getting closer to a sellout.

Being drafted by the Tampa Bay Lightning didn’t give Brendan O’Donnell a swollen ego.

A howl is making its way throughout Osoyoos and Oliver.

Tryouts for district soccer will hit the pitch soon.

Alwaleed Al Keaid was the first Saudi Arabian to compete in an Ironman event when he completed Subaru Ironman Canada on Sunday. He is driven to raise awareness for disabled children.

Victory was sweet for Viktor Zyemtsev of the Ukraine as he calmly went through the finish line ribbon of Subaru Ironman Canada.

Victory was sweet for Viktor Zyemtsev of the Ukraine as he calmly went through the finish line ribbon of Subaru Ironman Canada.

Not too long ago Alwaleed Alkeaid was a couch potato.

Buckerfields, with a long established reputation for quality in home, garden, animal feed and farm markets will soon open in the Westbank Town Centre in West Kelowna.

Funky, cool and comfortable. Those are the words that the manager of Penticton’s newest upscale sports bar calls Bar One that opened last month.

At only 14 Rhys Pender was introduced to wine when working in wine retail shop. Growing up in Canberra, Australia he only saw it as a job, showing no real interest in wine.

The Penticton Wine Country Visitor Centre has a new wine map on display outside the building. The huge eight-by-six-foot sign shows the placement of all the wineries in the Okanagan. While you are here purchasing your wine from the Wine Shop or buying tic

Federal funding to reduce the short-term impacts of the economic downturn is doing the job it set out to, according to the minister of state for western economic diversification.

As women, we don’t believe it when we are told “one size fits all”, and we sure know that one size doesn’t fit forever either. The same can be said for your investment portfolio. The investments that you chose while you were accu

The Penticton Service Canada Centre for Youth will be closing for the season on Aug. 18, 2010.

Starting Sept. 10, Penticton will once again be transformed as music venues all over the city take on the persona of the greatest jazz locales from the French Quarter to the Cotton Club.

One more exorcism movie, and I’m gonna spew a little pea soup of my own.

There is still one more chance to attend a outdoor performance of Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest.

While there have been many tributes to Sharon Amos since she died on Jan. 5, perhaps none is so fitting as the new plaque installed on the dedication wall at the entrance to Okanagan Lake Park.

A new South Okanagan Events Centre record was set last week during the presale period for tickets to the upcoming Carrie Underwood concert.

Ranked among the sexiest resorts in the world, the picturesque setting of Le Taha’s Island Resort and Spa is a hidden paradise.

Internationally known installation artist Betty Spackman has a barn full of bones, hundreds of them. She has cow skulls, bird bones, bear hides and sheep bones, to name a few.

The stars of The Expendables aren’t actors — at least, not in this movie, they’re not. Here, they’re action figures. A once-in-a-lifetime collection of rugged, muscled-up heroes and villains, fresh from the comic pages, the wre

Now in its second year, the Similkameen Wineries Association is building on its successes and repeating an event that was a hit last year.

I’ll bet most of us who write for this newspaper have a half-finished novel squirrelled away in our desks. Hemingway always said the hardest part about writing a novel was finishing it and I have no doubt he was right.

It is the perfect vacation for choco-holics. St. Stephen New Brunswick celebrates the sweet treat in an annual festival, this year to be held Aug. 1 to 7.

Which government issued a decree making the second Sunday of August a national holiday celebrating melons? Iran, Turkmenistan or India?

For the second time in a row Scouts Canada is opening up their summer camps to non-scouters.