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The Queen Silver Star Excellence Program will live on. Organizers of the Vernon Winter Carnival event that dates back 58 years, say they have eight confirmed candidates, and are waiting on the paperwo...

Update: 12:15 pm RCMP have made arrests and seized drugs at a Vernon home labelled as a problem premise. Four people were arrested during the operation Tuesday afternoon at the site police call a susp...

BC's Seniors Advocate has released a report that raises questions on the hospitalization rate of seniors in residential care facilities. Isobel Mackenzie says many emergency room clinicians in six hos...

This is an example of a replica MP5 vs. a real MP5. Can you tell the difference? Real gun or not? That was the situation faced by Vernon Mounties who responded to a report of a man with a gun in Polso...

A West Kelowna man is recovering from stab wounds after he was assaulted in the long term parking lot at Kelowna International Airport last night. Police say it happened about 9:30 when the man went b...

The heat wave hasn't taken a huge toll on Greater Vernon's water supply this summer. Jennifer Miles -- water sustainability coordinator with the Regional District of North Okanagan -- says people's ef...

Summer is half over, and so far, it's been a steady one as far as tourism in Vernon. The City's tourism manager, Ange Chew, says visitor numbers have been on par with last year. "We didn't have the be...

Potential candidates for Vernon council can now pick up nomination documents from City Hall. Voters will elect a mayor and six councillors to four year terms on Oct. 20th. The nomination period runs f...

City of Vernon staff are still working on how to implement a ban on the homeless using shopping carts on public property. While that process is underway, several city councillors are getting criticize...

An upgrade to a section of Kalamalka Road in Coldstream is getting closer to completion. A multi use path is being added from the District boundary, just south of the Alpine Centre, to College Way. Di...