Osoyoos News is an ad-free, source-linked local news hub built to make South Okanagan information easier to find, easier to read and harder to miss.
Local news can get scattered quickly. A council notice lands on one site, a road update appears somewhere else, a hospital notice is buried in a feed, and by the time you find it, someone has already asked about it three times at the coffee shop. Osoyoos News was built to help pull that local information into one clean place.
The site focuses on Osoyoos, Oliver, Keremeos, Cawston, Anarchist Mountain, the Osoyoos Indian Band and directly connected South Okanagan services. The goal is not to replace local journalists or official sources. The goal is to help readers discover the information that matters, credit the people and organizations who published it first, and follow the original source when they want the full record.
Our Story
Osoyoos News is independent, self-funded and built as a community-minded technology project. There is no corporate newsroom hiding behind the curtain, no downtown boardroom and no secret army of editors. It is a custom-built local news system created with a lot of curiosity, a lot of testing and, yes, more than a few late nights.
The project started with a simple question: can responsible software and local AI tools help residents keep up with the community without making them chase ten different websites every morning?
The answer is still being built, improved and corrected as the site grows. That is part of the point. Osoyoos News is a working local newsroom experiment with a practical purpose: help people stay informed.
How the Site Works
Osoyoos News monitors selected public sources, checks whether items are actually connected to the coverage area, removes obvious duplicates and prepares readable local updates. Official notices are attributed to the official body that issued them. Outside-media reports are rewritten in fresh wording, linked back to the original publisher and checked against the available source material.
The site uses automation and AI, but it is not a free-for-all. The system is instructed not to invent facts, create quotes, stretch a story beyond the source or treat a publisher name as proof that something is local. When a story is too thin, unclear, off-area or questionable, it can be held back for review.
To keep residents better connected to local information while respecting original sources, official records and the people who actually live here.
What We Cover
We focus on practical local information: municipal notices, public safety, roads, weather impacts, community events, health-service updates, local accountability, regional issues with a direct local connection and stories that affect daily life in the South Okanagan.
We do not chase every provincial headline just because it happened somewhere in British Columbia. If a story does not clearly connect to our area, it does not belong here — no matter how noisy it is elsewhere.
Editorial Independence
Osoyoos News is not affiliated with the Town of Osoyoos, the Town of Oliver, any publisher, political party, business group or government agency. Official sources are treated as authoritative for their own notices, but that does not make the site an official municipal outlet.
Corrections and Accountability
Small-town information still deserves big-city accuracy. If something is wrong, incomplete, stale or unclear, readers can request a correction. We would rather fix a mistake than pretend one never happened.
Source links are included wherever possible so readers can review the original material for themselves.
Thanks for Reading
Thank you for supporting a project that is part local newsroom, part software experiment and part community noticeboard. It was built with code, curiosity, responsible AI and a genuine interest in keeping the South Okanagan informed.