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Some of the measures proposed by the Activate Safety Task Force will be adopted by the City of Vernon -- while others will not, for cost or other reasons. However, council did take the 46 recommendati...

A two-car crash caused a traffic snarl on Alexis Park Drive this afternoon, according to an eye witness. The accident took place just before 4 p.m. RCMP, Vernon Fire Rescue and ambulance crews attende...

BC Wildfire Service staff were forced to temporarily halt air operations yesterday on a wildfire burning 19 kilometres east of Nakusp due to unmanned drones getting in the way. Apparently a helicopter...

UPDATE 2:40 p.m.: The BC Wildfire Service reports a spot fire is burning near Postill Lake, south of Vernon Creek, to the east of Okanagan Lake. The fire is estimated to be .01 hectare in size. ------...

The RCMP are holding a man in custody in connection with the suspicious death of a woman at a hotel in West Kelowna. Officers were called to the hotel on the 3400 block of Carrington Road just after 7...

The RCMP's Underwater Recovery Team has completed a search of a local lake for a missing man. 58 year old John Keeley, a teacher at Vernon Secondary, has been missing since last Wednesday after gong k...

There is no shortage of work for BC's Ombudsperson. The independent agency looks into people's complaints if they feel they been treated unfairly by government. Ombudsperson Jay Chalke says the Social...

Update 11:30 Gateway Casinos blames the BCGEU for the breakdown in mediated contract talks over the weekend. The meeting began Friday but ended Saturday morning when the union felt the company's respo...

Picture - BC Wildfire Service The Mt Eneas fire near Peachland is now about 1550 hectares. The BC Wildfire Service merged the Munro Lake Forest Service Road fire with the Mt Eneas fire to get better c...

Vernon council will be addressing the recommendations made by the Activate Safety Task Force at today's meeting. The ad hoc group made 46 suggestions two weeks ago on how to improve the impact of the ...