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A B.C. Liberal MLA has joined opposition calls for an overhaul of services to developmentally disabled people.

Doctors' offices, clinics and pharmacies have begun the annual influenza vaccination program, which is free for seniors and children between six and 23 months old.

Mayor Janice Perrino will be at the helm for another three years.

BC Hydro is moving ahead with its cost-cutting program, eliminating 300 positions this week and announcing 150 more will be gone in the next two years.

The Peach Orchard Campground finished its 2011 season at the end of the Labour Day weekend, but officials with the Summerland Chamber of Economic Development and Tourism believe a longer season would be in order.

The head of the B.C. Treaty Commission wants her mandate extended one more year to see if the federal-provincial effort to settle aboriginal land claims has a future after two decades.

Candidates in the upcoming municipal election will face each other at a public forum next month.

Summerland Credit Union is putting up half a million dollars in venture capital to build the local economic base and create jobs.

An online networking service to encourage carpooling in the region has gone largely unnoticed since it was introduced to Summerlanders in spring.

The South Okanagan Rehabilitation Centre for Owls released a bird near Summerland