Source hierarchy
- Town of Osoyoos official news and events — primary municipal evidence for Osoyoos notices.
- Times Chronicle — local and regional reporting.
- Castanet Oliver/Osoyoos — local and regional reporting.
- Global News Okanagan — regional reporting when directly connected to the coverage area.
- Global News British Columbia — provincial reporting only when the local connection is clear.
- Google News local discovery — used for discovery and publisher-backed results only when the source and article evidence meet local relevance rules.
Keremeos remains part of the coverage area, but Keremeos Review is not queried as a direct aggregator source. If a Keremeos Review item appears through Google News, it is skipped as a disabled publisher source.
Locality rules
An outside-media item must explicitly connect to Osoyoos, Oliver, Keremeos, Cawston, Anarchist Mountain, the Osoyoos Indian Band or an immediately connected local service. Publisher names, source domains and generic regional wording do not count as locality evidence on their own. A story is not local just because the internet took the scenic route through the Okanagan.
Attribution
Every sourced article should identify and link to the leading source wherever possible. Supporting links are retained when they help explain or corroborate the local story. Readers are encouraged to visit original publishers and support the reporting that made the information available.
Duplicate handling
Reports describing the same local event are intended to be clustered rather than published repeatedly. If a new source covers an event that already exists on the site, the link may be merged into the existing article or the item may be withheld.
Human/staff reporting
Original Osoyoos News human/staff reporting does not require a fake outside source URL. Supporting links may still be added when helpful.