(STEVE ARSTAD / iNFOnews.ca) April 20, 2021 - 6:30 AM The Penticton fire base is nearing completion on a $2.5 million upgrade, just in time for fire season. B.C. Wildfire Penticton Base spokesperson Rob Osiowy says a project to expand the facility’s classroom, training and office facilities on the west side of Airport Road should be ready by the end of the month, while work across the road on an upgraded warehouse and training space should be finished later in June. “We’re looking forward to making the base a better place to work out of. The base is split in two, bisected by Airport Road. The east side will see an upgraded warehouse, which hasn’t been renovated for 30 years, and a double-wide trailer complex to provide more updated and modern office facilities for the 29 personnel who work out of the Penticton office,” he says.
(STEVE ARSTAD / iNFOnews.ca) March 14, 2021 - 8:00 AM High on a mountainside near Rossland lies the wreckage of a Second World War bomber that met its end on an early winter October morning while on its way to Penticton. The crash claimed the lives of two Penticton civilians and seven Royal Canadian Air Force servicemen who were familiar faces in the Peach City in the late 1940s. The Mitchell aircraft crashed 13 miles northwest of Rossland in 1947. It made headlines in the Okanagan twice – when it disappeared from radio contact on Oct. 18, 1947, and again in Oct. 1952, when the plane’s wreckage was discovered by a Kootenay hunter.
Image Credit: SUBMITTED/ Wikimedia Commons January 08, 2021 - 12:15 PM A new commercial airline begins scheduled flights out of Penticton Regional Airport next week. Pacific Coastal Airlines inaugural flight between Vancouver and Penticton is scheduled to land at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 11, according to a Pacific Coastal media release. Pacific Coastal will be making the Vancouver to Penticton run Monday and Wednesday, departing Vancouver at 10:40 a.m. and arriving in Penticton at 11:30 a.m. Penticton to Vancouver flights will be on Monday and Wednesdays, departing Penticton at noon, arriving in Vancouver at 12:50 p.m. Friday and Sunday, the airline will provide a Vancouver to Penticton flight leaving Vancouver at 2:45 p.m. and arriving in Penticton at 3:35 p.m. The Penticton to Vancouver return flights on Friday and Saturday will leave Penticton at 4:05 p.m. and arrive in Vancouver at 4:55 p.m.
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B.C. MLA Dan Ashton and MP Richard Cannings say they're disappointed by Air Canada's decision to suspend flights for travelers living in Penticton and other southern Okanagan municipalities.