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The Vernon Pickleball Association hopes to get construction started this month on its new 12 court facility in Marshall Field. The group is waiting for approval in an engineer's geo-tech report. Club ...

The first patients to move into Vernon's newest residential care and assisted living complex should be going in, in September. H&H Total Care Chief Operating Officer Hendrik Van Ryk says the compa...

The Mayors of Coldstream and Lake Country and Regional District of North Okanagan Board Chair Bob Fleming have had a talk about what happens with the Okanagan Rail Trail once it's developed. Timing pr...

Kiss FM has been getting calls about increased smoke in Vernon area tonight. Our news department was not able to get through to the BC Wildfire Service, but a person who answered the phone at Vernon F...

Update: 2:30 pm Sunday The cause of a shed fire in Winfield that spread up a hillside on Saturday afternoon, is under investigation by RCMP. "However it's not the same as some of the other fires that ...

Update: 2pm BC Hydro says there are still 373 customers without power from this morning's outage that occurred about 9:28 am due to a bird contacting a Hydro wire. The affected areas are South of MOUN...

Strong winds and lightning have upped the number of new fires burning in BC. The BC Wildfire Service says 28 new fires started on Saturday, with 163 currently active. "Lightning was responsible for th...

The Shambala Music Festival will be able to complete its event. Organizers of the festival near Salmo in southern BC have announced the wetter cooler weather has downgraded the risk of the McCormick C...

Here is the latest information on wildfires in the Regional District of Central Kootenay. KOKANEE CREEK WILDFIRE Approximate size: 70 hectares BC Wildfire reports that the Kokanee Creek wildfire has n...

Last night about 1am, BX Swan Lake Fire Dept. responded to a minor structure fire on Spartan Road on the outside of the back of the building. When crews arrived they easily extinguished the small fire...