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Update Oct 7 12 pm: Vernon's Shanda Hill is nearing completion of the 540 km bike ride at the ultra athlete event in Virginia called the Triple Anvil. She is second among the female contestants. Hill'...

New traffic medians are going to be installed on Highway 97 just north of Vernon. The two and a half kilometres of barrier separating southbound and northbound traffic will be installed starting south...

With the Okanagan Rail Trail already proving hugely popular, the next step is to plan for issues like washrooms, fencing, garbage and signage. Greater Vernon Advisory director Jim Garlick says they ne...

Hope Outreach will begin its first walk in Vernon's downtown this weekend after a successful organizing campaign for outreach workers. The program aims to help Vernon's homeless, addicted or exploited...

Vernon-North Okanagan RCMP are investigating two hotel front desk robberies in the span of less than a week. Police suspect the robberies were committed by the same person. The first robbery took plac...

If you like grilled cheese, Armstrong is the place to be. The 2017 Grilled Cheese Competition starts Friday at five restaurants in the city, and continues until Nov 3. The public can visit the busines...

The BC Conservation Service says it continues to track down boats coming into the province with invasive mussels. A program to prevent the spread of the damaging mussels into Okanagan lakes has been u...

Local politicians are calling for more priority on removing dangerous trees on public land around Greater Vernon. The Greater Vernon Advisory Committee was told there are a number of concerns, such as...

There has been over 20-thousand human-wildlife conflicts reported to BC Conservation officers this year. The majority of those -- about 14-thousand have involved blacks bear -- of which 469 have been ...

Green Party leader Andrew Weaver has re-introduced a bill to ban foreign ownership on Agricultural Land Reserve land over five acres Weaver says allowing ALR land to be subject to international real e...