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Vernon School trustees will spend the next week looking at a Draft Budget Adjustment Plan for the next school year. The current budget plan projects a deficit of 430 thousand dollars. School Board Cha...

People in Armstrong will be keeping their eyes on the sky for the next few weeks to see how the weather is going to go. May 6th was the day last year Meighan Creek flooded parts of the city. Mayor Chr...

The Vernon Teachers Association has made a number of recommendations as part of input on the School Board's new budget. Teachers president Lisa LaBoucane made a presentation to the board Wednesday nig...

A non profit group says SAFERhomes seem to be catching on in Vernon. Patrick Simpson from the SAFERhome Standards Society told city council, a third certified home is being built in Vernon, with two m...

The role of the Social Planning Council has created a squabble between two Vernon council members. Mayor Akbal Mund is calling councillor Scott Anderson "two-faced" for saying he supports the planning...

Two fires at the same house in Lumby are being treated as suspicious. A home in the 170 block of Brookfield Road sustained extensive smoke damage after a fire around 11 pm Tuesday night. The lone occu...

The cause of a house fire in Armstrong may have involved foul play. RCMP say they are investigating a blaze at 3660 Sage Avenue Monday night. When police arrived, the rear of the home was fully engulf...

RCMP in Vernon confirm they're investigating the discovery of fetal remains on the weekend. Police are saying little about it, only that the remains were located at an apartment building in the 3900 b...

The Okanagan Basin Water Board has announced funding of 1.45 million dollars to help communities in the valley plan and prepare for future flood events. The money comes from the federal and BC governm...

Lumby firefighters are a still at the scene of house fire in the 100 block of Brookfield Road last night. Fire Chief Tony Clayton says they were called about 10 o'clock. "It's fairly large. A lot of f...