A medical supply chain company and its partner, a manufacturer of medical PPE, were in Oliver recently to present a social enterprise giveback worth $75,000 as part of their commitment to the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action.
This month, Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) member Jane Stelkia will be turning 95 years old, making her the oldest person in the syilx Nation, and the OIB has extended an open invitation to help her celebrate.
The Oliver and District Arena Rehabilitation project’s primary work has been completed, the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) and the Town of Oliver have announced today (March 10).
More than 70 years after a dam blocked salmon from moving through their historic habitat, members of the syilx Okanagan Nation are celebrating the creation of a future fish passage.
Clarence Louie, one of Canada’s most respected First Nations chiefs, told a Penticton audience made up of seniors that growing old is admired and worshiped in his culture.
The Syilx Okanagan Nation has added its voice to the outcry against racist comments uttered by the BC Conservative candidate for the hotly contested riding of Juan de Fuca-Malahat, Marina Sapozhnikov.
Community members from across the syilx Okanagan Nation gathered last week for their annual autumn salmon feast, to honour ntytyix (Chief Salmon) and to celebrate successes restoring the fish to their ancestral waterways.
As a demonstration of their sovereignty and unity, syilx Okanagan people and their kin crossed the colonial border that divides their territories on horseback on Saturday, July 20.
Construction has begun on the Oliver and District Arena Rehabilitation project, with the 56 year old facility getting major upgrades, the Town of Oliver and the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) announced today.
Thieves have struck the Osoyoos Indian Band’s (OIB) youth archery program on Wednesday night making off with 20 youth bows and six dozen feathered arrows in carrying cases from a locked trailer near Senpaq’cin School.
The Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) and The Sutherland Group of Companies – a resource extraction and related industrial support group – have formed a limited partnership company Skemxist Solutions to tap the heavy industry market in Western Canada.
By Don Urquhart, Times Chronicle Osoyoos will soon have an additional 43 rental homes pinned on...
It’s the new year and our civic leaders are looking ahead with many objectives and goals in mind to make our communities a better place to live. From enhanced infrastructure to social well-being, these leaders want 2023 to be a year of change and good fortune, but they can’t do it alone.
Friday’s Light-Up in Oliver will be loaded with eight hours of activities and events during the dazzling Fire and Ice Festival.
Corporal Ernie Baptiste George is a name long remembered and honoured by the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB).George fought and died in the Second World War so that everyone back home could have their freedom. He was 26 when he died in Italy on Dec. 13, 1944.
For Clarence Louie, receiving an honorary doctorate last week paled in comparison to honouring the Mohawk warriors who defended their land during the Oka crisis in 1990.
Town of Oliver officials spoke loud and clear on several issues of concern at the Union of BC Municipalities convention.
The Osoyoos Credit Union (now known as the OCU) is moving closer to its goal of opening its new Oliver branch on Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) land in mid-August.
On a shelf in the corner of the art gallery curiously sits a mortar and pestle, and beside it four small jars of different hues of reddish-brown to sagey-beige powder. Simple, yet purposefully placed. Innocuous, yet poignant.
The long-awaited papal apology for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in wide-ranging abuses at...
The Osoyoos Indian Band’s Brenda Baptiste is one of thirty-one people invested into the Order of British Columbia during a ceremony at Government House in Victoria on Thursday, March 3.
The City of Grand Forks and the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) have reached an agreement to provide much-needed housing through the relocation of homes currently located within the floodplain restoration area in North Ruckle.
Dale Boyd Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Osoyoos Indian Band Chief Clarence Louie was...