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Vernon will be all about thousands of horses this weekend...horsepower that is. It's the Sun Valley Cruise In and it's one of the most popular spectator events of the year. It goes today and tomorrow ...

A series of fishing resorts and rural properties around a popular recreation lake north of Cache Creek have been evacuated because of the rapidly advancing Ashcroft Reserve fire. Loon Lake was placed ...

A major wind event is forecast to hit the Cariboo and southern British Columbia today, bringing gusts of up to 70 kilometres per hour to some areas. These winds are expected to persist well into Sunda...

The grounds of the Army Camp south of Vernon are busy again, with the 2017 edition of the cadet training centre. About 1,500 individuals aged 12 to 18 from Western and Northern Canada will be here to ...

A new report says 171 kilometres -- or 59 per cent -- of Okanagan Lake's shoreline have been developed or disturbed. The Okanagan Foreshore Inventory Mapping report also found that four kilometres of ...

There are 167 active fires burning in BC today. That's down from 188 on Thursday. There have been 21 new fires since Thursday. Chief information officer Kevin Skrepnek (pictured) from the BC Wildfire ...

A man will have to spend another 25 days in prison for his part in a drug related shooting incident in Vernon. 26 year old Adrien Dziedzic plead guilty to three weapons charges after a shotgun was fir...

The North Okanagan-Shuswap School District and the Bands of the Secwepemc Nation took part in a signing ceremony of the Local Education Agreement last evening. Included are the Adams Lake, Little Shus...

Vernon is setting up a reception centre to support wildfire evacuees who come to the city. Vernon's emergency program coordinator Luana Kaleikini says it will be at the Salvation Army at 3303 32 Avenu...

People are being asked to refrain from going into BC's back country while fire conditions are at an extreme level. Chief information officer Kevin Skrepnek from the BC Wildfire Service says the danger...