Accuracy before speed
Being first is nice. Being right is better. Publication requires local relevance, a configured or accepted source, duplicate checks and factual support. Media reports also undergo evidence and originality checks.
Coverage area
The primary coverage area is Osoyoos, Oliver, Keremeos, Cawston, Anarchist Mountain, the Osoyoos Indian Band and directly connected South Okanagan services such as South Okanagan General Hospital. Regional or provincial stories need a clear local connection before they belong here.
Official notices
Official Town of Osoyoos notices are treated as authoritative for their own announcements. They may be published directly with attribution and a link to the municipality. Boilerplate navigation, repeated footer text and irrelevant website clutter may be removed for readability.
Outside media reporting
Outside-media reports may be summarized or rewritten in fresh language using locally operated AI tools. The system may not add unsupported facts, invent quotations or stretch the story beyond the source material. If the source says less, the article should say less too.
Difficult subjects
Crime, violence, hate incidents, injury, death and other difficult subjects are not automatically excluded when they are reported by a configured official or news source. Coverage must be neutral, non-sensational, clearly attributed and free of unnecessary graphic detail or harmful instructions.
Automatic publication
Local sourced stories that pass spam, locality, evidence, duplicate and originality checks may publish without manual approval. Items that lack support, are off-area, duplicate an existing item or need human judgment may be withheld for review.
Permanent archive
Published articles are not automatically deleted. After 365 days they leave active news listings and move into year-and-month archive pages while their original URLs remain available. Clearly dated past events are labelled as expired.
Plain-English promise
Osoyoos News will try to be useful, local, sourced and honest about how the site works. When something goes sideways, the goal is to correct it rather than pretend the tumbleweed did it.