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Update: A change in the weather has put an end to a dust advisory for Vernon. The air quality notice was issued Monday due to increased levels course particulates, caused by road traffic stirring up w...

Construction will soon begin on a narrow section of Westside Road in West Kelowna, from La Casa Resort to Muir Road. The plan is to improve traffic flow and safety by widening the road and adding road...

The fifth annual Okanagan Military Tattoo on July 28 and 29 at Kal Tire Place in Vernon will have a decidedly international flavour this year with the addition of the 133rd Army National Guard Band fr...

Vernon's Upper Room Mission has applied for summer job funding from the federal government, but has an issue with a new part of the application. The government requires organizations to attest to thei...

The BC government is looking for ways to change ICBC's system so that good drivers are rewarded with lower rates, and bad drivers pay more. Attorney General David Eby says a consultation process start...

The new North Okanagan Shuswap School Board that is elected this October will be almost half the size as the former one. Education Minister Rob Fleming has decided the new board will have five trustee...

UPDATE: Social media postings by friends have identified the victim as 30 year old Travis Squair. A Lumby man has died while snowmobiling in the backcountry. Police received an emergency spot activati...

COSAR was called to a rescue at Graystokes Provincial Park around 2pm on Sunday after a SPOT emergency beacon was activated to report a snowmobile rider with a heart attack. COSAR responded with 16 me...

BC Liquor Stores are giving dry graduation events the 'thumbs up' as part of the BC Liquor Distribution Branch's annual Support Dry Grad fundraising campaign. Throughout the month of March, BC Liquor ...

Consumers will soon have another choice when it comes to eating out in Vernon. Mr. Mikes opens its 13th restaurant in BC Tuesday in Vernon, and its first in the Okanagan. Senior vice president Busines...