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Picture:Vernon Winter Carnival   Anyone driving around Vernon late Monday morning would have seen some hot air balloons hanging over the city. Members of the North Okanagan Hot Air Balloon Societ...

Okanagan residents will be getting their 2018 property assessment notices in the mail the next few days. BC Assessment has mailed the notices to over 227,000 properties throughout the Okanagan, updati...

Vernon's first baby of 2018 arrived late in the afternoon on New Year's Day. Interior Health says Taylor Carey-Ashe of Vernon gave birth to a 7 pound 14 oz girl at 5:10 pm Monday at Vernon Jubilee Hos...

Vernon Mayor Akbal Mund isn't sure when Civic Arena is going to be torn down. But he expects it could be torn down before the new rink at Kal Tire Place opens. "We haven't confirmed but I know we'll p...

Lumby's Mayor is feeling like he'd like to take another shot for at least another term Civic elections will be held in October and Kevin Acton says his intention is to run again. "Barring any major ch...

The Mayor of Enderby says it's time the provincial government do something about the bottleneck that's created in the city as traffic grows. Greg McCune says the crunch on Highway 97A is only going to...

Vernon's Mayor doesn't know yet if he's going to see re-election in the civic vote next October. Akbal Mund figures on making a decision somewhere around April or May. "We still got almost 8 months to...

Vernon's Mayor is optimistic economic development in Vernon will continue to grow. Akbal Mund says the business landscape is slowly changing as a lot of smaller businesses open up. "There's a lot of i...

The Mayor of Lake Country hasn't decided yet if he's going to seek re-election this fall. James Baker says he has to take some things into consideration. "If things are completed or all done that I wo...

While most were spending New Year's Eve with family and friends, Vernon Search and Rescue crews and North Westside Fire Rescue members spent New Year's Eve in search of two missing children near West ...