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Both today's and Sunday's UBC Okanagan Heat men's soccer conference opening matches have been postponed after a Friday afternoon update from the conference. All postponed due to poor air quality. From...

The Monashee Complex started at 27 fires in the drainages of Mabel and Sugar lakes from just south of Hwy 6 in the south to Three Valley Gap in the north. The Monashee Complex has four Fires of Note: ...

- Emergency Management BC is asking people, who have self-evacuated to larger communities due to smoke, to consider returning home. In many communities hosting evacuees, accommodations are reaching ca...

UPDATE: 4:28 p.m. RCMP in Salmon Arm have arrested a Shuswap man in his 30s following a dramatic incident Friday afternoon during which a vehicle rammed the front of the 7-Eleven store on Highway One ...

The Vernon North Okanagan RCMP want to have a coffee ... with you. Coffee with a Cop has been adopted by many law enforcement agencies across North America as a way for the public and business owners ...

Tourism numbers in Vernon are down anywhere from 5 to 10 percent this month, which is being blamed on issues with wildfire smoke. However, the city's tourism manager Angeline Chew says it's an issue a...

Swimmers are once again being warned to not to dive into Kalamalka Lake off of Rotary Pier at Kal Beach because the depth is too shallow. The District Coldstream's Chief Administrative Officer Trevor ...

Vernon's proposed bylaw banning shopping carts on public land throughout the city, could be doomed. The measure has faced stiff public opposition, and the BC Civil Liberties Association calls it ridic...

UPDATE: 12:55 p.m. RCMP report a person was treated in hospital for minor injuries after an incident this morning in Okanagan Landing that involved a pedestrian. However police call it a minor inciden...

Air quality has improved in some areas of BC -- but it's still bad in the Interior. Vernon's air quality health index is at 10, or very high risk this morning. Kelowna is current at 7, which is high r...