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7 pm story Vernon council has put the brakes on a plan to ban commercial shopping carts on public property. Council voted 5-1 at Tuesday's meeting to not proceed with a bylaw, a few weeks after voting...

UBC Okanagan is expecting its highest enrollment ever this fall. Deputy registrar Fred Vogt says 24-hundred first-year students are starting this month, leading to a student population of just under 1...

Gabi Haas of GDH Solutions presents findings of the 2018 draft Master Recreation Plan to Vernon council. (Pete McIntyre photo) An indoor aquatic centre could be the next public recreation facility pur...

CJIB News has learned bargaining was to resume today between Gateway Casinos and the BCGEU, representing 675 striking workers in the Okanagan and Kamloops Talks were scheduled for today through Septem...

Vernon North Okanagan RCMP remind drivers of the restrictions they need to be aware of in school zones. The 30km/h speed limit is in effect in school zones from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on school days. Excess...

Let the nominations begin! The official period for people to file to run for municipal councils, regional districts and school trustees begins this morning at 9. Potential candidates have until 4 pm o...

Another candidate is in the running for Vernon council. Jamie Morrow, a faculty member in the School of Business at Okanagan College, is tossing his hat into the ring. Morrow says he believes his more...

This year's edition of the Interior Provincial Exhibition will go down as huge for fun...but sheepishly though, not so huge for overall attendance. When the final tally came in it was 104,291...a far ...

RCMP are asking independent witnesses to come forward as collision investigators probe a motorcycle involved crash that sent two men to hospital Saturday evening with varying degrees of injuries. On S...

With the help of recent shower activity, BC Wildfire crews have been making good progress in battling wildfires however it appears, smoke from the blazes continues to remain a problem. Environment Can...