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The Village of Lumby is hoping to get a grant from the BC Rural Dividend Fund to help create the Lumby Investment Corporation Project. The idea is to create a strategy that assists the Village in beco...

The new Vernon council will face a major dilemma as soon as they are elected this fall. The City is facing operational cost increases of over 2 million dollars in 2019, which translates to a 5.4 perce...

The hundreds of cadets who have called Vernon home for a few weeks this summer, are almost ready to close camp. The Cadet Training Centre wraps up its summer season with its Sunset Parade tonight at D...

Lumby Council continues to wrestle with how to regulate production, retail and consumption of cannabis. Mayor Kevin Acton says councillors debated the matter this week, coming down to modelling proper...

A man believed to be a BC gang member has been charged with an attack at a campsite in Monte Lake, northwest of Vernon. Police say the incident began as a verbal altercation, and escalated to an assau...

Kin and Sandy beaches on Okanagan Lake should be kept clean under a new agreement between the City of Vernon and the Okanagan Indian Band. The deal includes maintenance of Sandy Beach which is the ban...

RCMP have arrested a suspect who allegedly committed two robberies over a two hour period in Vernon. The first one occurred at a business in the 3100-block of Highway 6, around 1:45 Tuesday afternoon....

BC is now under a provincial State of Emergency to support the provincewide response to the ongoing wildfire situation. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth made the declaration based on the recommen...

True Leaf Medicine International Ltd has appointed Dr. Katherine Kramer as Founding Chair of its Veterinary Advisory Board. Dr. Kramer, who has been a vocal advocate for the research and therapeutic u...

Fire dispatch in Vernon will be moving to Kelowna. Mayor Akbal Mund says it's a cost saving measure that's been talked about for some time. "We've said that we wanted to look at different ways to save...