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Politicians and families spun around the ice at a Kelowna Rockets game to highlight adoption awareness Friday night.

Penticton resident Vita Liepa said she shares her herb garden with a tiny gnome named Oolly.

People in the Arctic have been affected the most, yet have benefited the least from globalization, Arctic activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier told a Vernon audience recently.

Kelowna Nordic Ski Club has new signs to reflect its new name and a new dozer to move things forward even further. Now, the ski area near McCulloch Lake just needs snow.

No one was injured when a car crashed into one of the assisted-living suites at Village by the Station in Penticton Saturday morning. The female driver was pulling in to park when it is believed she put her foot on the accelerator instead of the brake. The accident happened about 11:30 a.m.

A successful blitzkrieg of community activism in Osoyoos this fall left some residents more confident about their property values and chastened town councillors embracing the notion of collaboration.

The Salvation Army in Kelowna is now accepting applications for family Christmas toy and food hampers at its Community Life Centre, 200 Rutland Rd.

The Jim Pattison Centre of Excellence at Okanagan College in Penticton picked up two awards at the 2012 Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards Gala.

Ecoles Entre-Lacs et Penticton Secondary is hoping a two-week program will help bridge the generation gap and inform students about seniors who have been living in the area as francophones.