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Police say alcohol was factor in a single vehicle rollover crash on Silver Star Road Thursday night. A male driver told police he hit a patch of black ice, lost control and flipped his vehicle near Fo...

A note for motorists heading north into Vernon on Highway 97. Police have the highway down to single lane traffic at the Bailey Road area after a rollover accident in the last hour. A car went off the...

UPDATE 7:44 am RCMP news release: RCMP are investigating a pedestrian struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Highway 6 and Middleton Way, Vernon. On January 18th, 2018, shortly after 5:00 pm the V...

It's been a slow process -- but Glen Taylor hopes to eventually get back to doing most of the things he was able to do before. The Coldstream councillor and O'Keefe Ranch manager suffered a serious sp...

Lake Country is marking another record year for the number of building permits issued in 2017 A report to council this week shows 431 permits compared with 380 the previous year. Mayor James Baker say...

The Regional District of North Okanagan has now adopted a bylaw allowing it to pay for its share of of the purchase of the North Okanagan/Shuswap Rail Trail. Temporary borrowing of funds was done in D...

UPDATE: RCMP are thanking the public for helping to identify a man suspected of using stolen credits cards in the Vernon area. Mounties issued a release and photo on Tuesday after a purse was stolen f...

The official trustee of the North Okanagan Shuswap School District is still waiting for a response from BC's Education Minister. Mike McKay recommended to the minister last month that the district cha...

The Vernon School Board heard a raft of ideas from the public last night about options for the future of Charles Bloom Secondary School in Lumby. About 200 people turned out to see the board's ideas o...

Lake Country council is looking into a new bylaw that would cover short term rentals like Air B and B's. Mayor James Baker says a survey was done on the issue which supported such a bylaw, but not to ...