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The annual food drive for the Lumby Food Bank gets underway tonight. Volunteers will be collecting items from homes in Lavington starting at 5:30 pm. Organizer Gary McLaughlin, a constable with the RC...

Pictured: Braden Matejka and his girlfriend Amanda in Las Vegas hospital (Facebook) An Okanagan man continues his recovery after getting shot in the Las Vegas massacre Sunday night. Braden Matejka say...

A new trial date has been set for a North Okanagan murder suspect. 31 year old Matthew Foerster was convicted by a jury in 2014 of the first degree murder of 18 year old Taylor Van Diest in Armstrong ...

The MP for North Okanagan Shuswap is looking to change Canada's Criminal Code to include a specific offence for theft of firefighting equipment that causes danger to life. Mel Arnold has tabled a priv...

Lumby is going to take a look at drawing up a bylaw limiting the number of pets allowed per household. Mayor Kevin Acton says it results from a complaint about feral cats within Village limits. "Our b...

Members of the North Okanagan-Shuswap NDP are anxious to learn more about their new federal leader. Jagmeet Singh won the job Sunday with a first ballot victory. North Okanagan Shuswap riding associat...

With construction set to start on the Okanagan Rail Trail project, residents are invited to have a look at the latest plans. Project Manager Andrew Gibbs is inviting people to attend three Open Houses...

The fall count of homeless people in Vernon will be taken later this month. The Camp Okanagan Outreach Liaison team or COOL team as it's become known, will be doing 2 counts. Annette Sharkey with the ...

The current Campfire Ban in Vernon is rescinded. This applies to all areas of the City of Vernon including: the Foothills and Blue Jay subdivisions, Predator Ridge, Canadian Lakeview Estates and Okana...

An Okanagan man was among those wounded in last night's mass shooting in Las Vegas. Braden Matejka, who grew up in Enderby, is in a Las Vegas hospital and said to be doing okay after being grazed in t...