Category Archives: Top News Stories

Lumby Council was full Monday night as residents wanted to see if council was going to approve a Development Variance Permit for a housing complex on Mountainview Avenue. The proposal is for four dupl...

RCMP are making an effort to track down the rightful owner of nearly a dozen collectable hockey cards seized by police as suspected stolen property. The items were seized sometime ago from an alleged ...

RCMP say the actions of some nearby witnesses helped make an arrest of a Vernon theft suspect. A man entered the Co-op gas station on 27th Street last Thursday afternoon and allegedly stole $500 in lo...

Armstrong Mayor Chris Pieper thinks the NDP made the right move in going ahead with the Site C Dam. Pieper says it's been talked about for decades and with the work that's been done, you can't turn ba...

Signs, signs...everywhere a sign. That could be the case next fall in Vernon after council decided not to limit where civic election signs could be placed. The city will will allow candidate signs on ...

The Vernon School District is doing better than others in the province in ensuring special ed teachers aren't having to fill in as substitutes. BC Teachers Federation President Glen Hansman argued ove...

Students and parents have been sent warnings after a a 16 year old Coldstream student contracted a severe case of meningitis. The female student at Kalamalka Secondary -- is being treated in a Vancouv...

City of Vernon staff are saying a request for a ban on non essential pesticides should not be a top priority. The request was made by the Sustainable Environment Network Society Nov. 27, with the grou...

A program that reduces human-wildlife conflicts could expand in the North Okanagan. Frank Ritsey, provincial coordinator of Wildsafe BC, says they are asking the city to continue supporting the progra...

The federal government is sweetening the pot when it comes to revenues generated by recreational marijuana sales once that becomes legal in Canada next July. Ottawa has agreed to give the provinces an...