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Peachland News

Bare in the air

Bare in the air

Peachland Jun 19, 2015 / 5:00 am

Women from around the Okanagan gathered in Peachland, Thursday, to strip down and zip down for breast cancer research. This year marked the fifth Bare in the...

Search scaled back

Search scaled back

Peachland Jun 17, 2015 / 2:15 pm

The search for a Winnipeg woman missing for more than a week in the woods above Peachland is winding down. Police say the ground search, involving provincial...

Crash blocks highway

Crash blocks highway

Peachland Jun 12, 2015 / 6:07 pm

Highway 97 is backed up for kilometres following a collision at the Princeton Avenue intersection in Peachland. Castanet readers say they're stuck in...

Drunk driver gets jail time

Drunk driver gets jail time

Peachland Jun 10, 2015 / 3:35 pm

An alleged drunk driver who caused a serious accident south of Peachland in 2013 will spend time behind bars. According to court documents, Tara Helena Hope...

Strip down to zip down

Strip down to zip down

Peachland Jun 9, 2015 / 3:19 pm

Zip-lining from unspeakable heights may be terrifying for some, but what about facing the diagnosis of breast cancer? According to the Canadian Breast Cancer...

Oliver man killed in crash

Oliver man killed in crash

Peachland Jun 5, 2015 / 2:44 pm

The B.C. Coroners Service has identified the man killed in Thursday’s head-on collision, south of Peachland. Oliver resident Grant Orville Wheeler, 81,...

One killed in crash

One killed in crash

Peachland Jun 4, 2015 / 1:45 pm

UPDATE 3:00 p.m. DriveBC has confirmed that Highway 97 is now cleared in both directions. UPDATE 1:40 p.m. RCMP are now confirming this morning's crash...

Boat overturns on lake

Boat overturns on lake

Peachland May 5, 2015 / 7:08 pm

Four people are cold and wet but uninjured after their boat capsized near Peachland. Fire and rescue crews were called out around 6 p.m. to Beach Ave after...

Crash snarls highway traffic

Crash snarls highway traffic

Peachland Mar 3, 2015 / 8:44 am

It's one heck of a commute for motorists heading into Kelowna from Peachland and points south this morning. A single-vehicle rollover at the Highway 97C...

Snowmobiler rescued

Snowmobiler rescued

Peachland Feb 28, 2015 / 2:36 pm

A snowmobiler is recovering today after being rescued Friday night. According to Central Okanagan Search and Rescue, they received a call just before midnight...

Pot factory clears hurdle

Pot factory clears hurdle

Peachland Feb 13, 2015 / 12:49 pm

A medical marijuana grow-op near Peachland has received the green light from Health Canada to begin construction. The announcement brings Potanicals Green...

New food bank opens

New food bank opens

Peachland Dec 16, 2014 / 5:00 pm

The District of Peachland has a new food bank thanks to a partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Six families in need will also be getting new homes out of the...

Frustrated and hunkered down

Frustrated and hunkered down

Peachland Nov 28, 2014 / 1:30 pm

Frustration rules the day in Peachland, as residents head into the second lengthy power outage of the week. After Wednesday's snowstorm damaged a power...

More power woes

More power woes

Peachland Nov 28, 2014 / 10:00 am

Update -- 10 a.m. It was initially thought that Peachland would be the only community affected by today's power outage, but it now appears that some...

Hundreds line up for flu shot

Hundreds line up for flu shot

Peachland Nov 6, 2014 / 7:20 am

The season of immunization is upon us once again. Hundreds are lining up at free flu clinics around the Okanagan, after the official vaccination effort began...

Pumpkin puts van in lake

Pumpkin puts van in lake

Peachland Oct 27, 2014 / 12:15 pm

UPDATE 12:15 P.M. A 33-year-old West Kelowna man is lucky to have escaped unscathed after his van ended up in Okanagan Lake Saturday morning. RCMP confirm the...

New Monaco gets green light

New Monaco gets green light

Peachland Oct 16, 2014 / 2:55 pm

An Edmonton-based company has just received final approval to build a large community development in Peachland. The New Monaco Enterprise Corporation passed its...

Housefire in Peachland

Housefire in Peachland

Peachland Oct 11, 2014 / 10:12 pm

A house fire on Huston Road in Peachland near the intersection of Shaw Road has sent one person to hospital with unconfirmed injuries. The fire started around...

Boat flips and sinks

Boat flips and sinks

Peachland Sep 24, 2014 / 10:32 am

An Okanagan boat owner had to abandon ship after a late night boating mishap on Sunday near the dog beach in Peachland. RCMP Cst. Kris Clark says the boat owner...

First paddleboard race a success

First paddleboard race a success

Peachland Aug 24, 2014 / 8:31 pm

The first ever Rattlesnake Island paddleboard race saw 30 people compete in the cross-lake competition. There were 30 entries in this challenging race around...