Category Archives: Top News Stories

Filming has started in Vernon for a feature film called Peace. Rick Dugdale of Enderby Entertainment is one of the producers of the World War 2 action thriller which has Vernon playing the setting of ...

Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2017 is a movement and not an individual. The New York Times summarizes as first it was a story. Then a moment. Now, two months after women began to come forward...

Some say it's long overdue in Junior B hockey in our province. B-C Hockey has announced that full face protection will be required for all players starting in the 2018-2019 season. The change won't af...

BCHL action tonight the Coquitlam Express are in town for a date with the Division leading Vernon Vipers...in fact at this time the Vipers are on top of the entire BCHL 3 points up on the closing fast...

Randene Wejr and Kelly Fehr, co-executive directors of the John Howard Society-North Okanagan/Kootenay, speak to media at new sober living facility on 43rd Avenue. Addictions recovery programs in Vern...

The BC government has set guidelines for recreational marijuana in the province, once it becomes legal next July. The minimum age to possess, purchase, and consume cannabis will be 19, same as for alc...

Vernon Search and Rescue got the call about 2:30 this morning to attend to a single vehicle that went down a steep embankment east of Cherryville and the lone driver was in dire need of attention. It ...

BC towns and cities may get a slice of the marijuana revenue pie after all. Public safety minister Mike Farnworth is pleased to hear Ottawa may be willing to reconsider the 50-50 split in tax revenues...

A scary incident for First Responders in Lake Country. Police and fire were attending to a crash on the highway near Pelmewash Parkway around 8:30 Sunday morning when a Dodge Ram pickup truck ran into...

The retirement of a long time principal has the North Okanagan Shuswap Schol District announces some changes. Alan Harrison is retiring after 31 years with the school district, 29 of those as vice-pri...