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Three Penticton city councillors introducing motions a Tuesdays council meeting

Penticton overdose prevention site operator closing down mobile service due to costly repairs

Penticton Area Overdose Prevention Society announced earlier this week that their bus is in need of some costly repairs.

Penticton overdose prevention site operator disappointed on provincial governments move to ban public drug use rather than focus on missing services in B.C.s drug decriminalization program.

Amid a record-high provincial death toll from drug overdoses, Penticton somehow managed to buck the trend last year in what one person on the front lines of the opioid crisis

Amid a record-high provincial death toll from drug overdoses, Penticton somehow managed to buck the trend last year in what one person on the front lines of the opioid crisis

On Thursday morning, more than 100 people gathered in Pearson Park near downtown Nanaimo, B.C., to express their anger with what they see as escalating crimes and a lack of policing in the city.

B.C. advocates working with the homeless population say they're concerned about growing vigilantism after a man was shot while trying to reclaim stolen property from an encampment on Vancouver Island.

A growing number of residents in the South Okanagan have joined a social media group to share information about stolen property and suspected thieves, but local Mounties say what they're doing is wrong and could put their personal safety at risk.