Category Archives: Top News Stories

Raises could be in store for the mayor and councillors in Coldstream for the next council. A motion going to council next week proposes raises of 11 per cent for councillors and 13 per cent for the Ma...

Save-On-Foods will donate a quarter of a million dollars to support local Western Canadian food banks after a successful first-ever Share It Forward weekend. The campaign, which ran from June 15th to ...

A BOIL WATER NOTICE is in place for users of the Mabel Lake Water Utility. The Regional District of North Okanagan, the water utility and Interior Health issued the notice last night. The water system...

57 year old Paramjit Singh Bogarth was in Vernon court today on a bail request. The judge reserved his decision until June 29 at 9am. Bogarth was extradited from the US to face a charge of murder in c...

Word out of Ottawa is that recreational marijuana could be legal this week, in fact Senator Jim Munson says the bill could even pass tonight. Conservatives continue to say Bill C-45 is flawed and won'...

UBC Okanagan announced this week the creation of a new Okanagan School of Education following the merger of the Okanagan and Vancouver Faculties of Education. The merger was approved by the UBC Board ...

Vernon Mayor Akbal Mund understands the concern of a local cannabis shop that's had to stop sales because it couldn't sign a covenant with the city. MMJ Total Health couldn't get its landlord to sign ...

BC Hydro predicts province wide electricity demand could exceed the historical record for the month of June with the heat wave that as moved in. Hydro recorded the highest peak hourly demand of the se...

Vernon-North Okanagan RCMP are still looking for the driver of a stolen vehicle who led police on a hunt yesterday afternoon that ended at Polson Mall. Officers had gone to the Ashton Creek area of En...

Charges are to be laid in connection with a rollover accident on Highway 6 in Lumby early this morning. RCMP were notified about one o'clock this morning by witnesses who reported seeing an SUV speedi...