Business Okanagan

For its work on the recent Highway 24 re-paving project, Penticton-based Peter Bros. Construction has been awarded the Contractor of the Year Award by the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infastructure. “Peter Bros. worked hard to deliver a high-quality finished product, laying down 32,000 tonnes of asphalt between 70 Mile House and Little Fort,” said [...]

It looks like the employment picture in Penticton and across the Okanagan is looking better according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada. The report showed that 820 people in Penticton received EI benefits in October, a 34.9 per cent decrease from the 1,260 who collected benefits in May. The year over year picture still [...]

With 11 per cent of overall visits to the Penticton Wine Country Visitor Centre last year coming from international markets and only one per cent of that number coming from the Asia/Australia region, there is certainly room for growth. That’s why the announcement this month that China has granted Canada “Approved Destination Status” has caught [...]