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It may not look like it right now but road conditions in Vernon should improve this afternoon as the temperature rises. It's been very slick all day, and the city's Public Works Manager James Rice say...

UPDATE 11:45 am Most of the transit routes in Greater Vernon are back up and running after earlier being suspended due to poor road conditions. Jonathan Dyck with BC Transit says the operating company...

New numbers from the BC Coroners Service show that the number of drug overdose deaths in BC this year now stands at one thousand 103. There were 80 suspected drug overdose deaths in September, 31 per ...

UPDATE: The new snow seems to have helped improve the local air quality. BC's Environment Ministry has lifted a two day old air quality advisory for Vernon. The agency says fine particulate concentrat...

A Lumby Mountie accused of a driving offence that caused a crash will go on trial next spring. Constable Megan Valenta -- born in 1977 -- is charged with driving without due care and attention under t...

Vernon's string of three straight months of record hotel tax revenues over the summer, came to an end in August. The figures released this week by the province, show the 2 percent tax charged to hotel...

RCMP have completed an investigation targeting a drug trafficking group that was supplying the Vernon area with illicit drugs. The investigation, which dates back to the summer, led to the arrest of t...

A 62 year old Salmon Arm man has died in a highway crash in the Shuswap. RCMP say a Toyota Tacoma collided with a loaded semi on a straight stretch of the Trans Canada near Salmon Arm Monday afternoon...

The tree on top of Vernon Jubilee Hospital is ready to get lit-up again. That marks the start of the Light A Bulb fundraiser, now into its 30th year. Lisa Westerman, executive director of the Vernon J...

Lake Country Council has deferred a controversial proposal to sell a strip of land at Gable Beach on Okanagan Lake to private landowners for 1.3 million dollars. Dozens of area residents packed the co...