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With local lake levels continuing to go down, more evacuation alerts have been lifted. The Regional District of Central Okanagan has rescinded the alerts for 22 properties in Lake Country. They are mo...

Vernon Subway restaurants have served up big support for a local charity. The business has made a $10,000 donation to the Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation's North Okanagan Men's Health Month. "We ar...

More donations are being sought to help BC's fire evacuees. Chris Brown of Vernon is leading a local effort to collect items that will be delivered to the reception centres up north. "What they're loo...

Firefighters battling the wildfire burning 10 kilometres north of Princeton are hopeful they'll get some containment of that fire today. Fire information officer Marg Drysdale says the fire is still a...

Wind continues to be a problem for firefighters tackling the Ashcroft wildfire. The fire has grown to 10 thousand 604 hectares after wind picked up last night adding another 300 hectares to the size. ...

Firefighters from Vernon could be deployed to other areas of BC to help fight wildfires. City council gave unanimous approval for that at a special meeting Wednesday, after getting assurance from Vern...

It took police just a few hours to arrest a suspect in a Vernon bank robbery. The Royal Bank in the Polson Mall on Highway 6 was robbed by a man around 2:30 Monday afternoon. "A multiple member respon...

The Village of Lumby isn`t sure yet what`s going to happen to the berms that were hastily erected during the flood Mayor Kevin Acton says there is still a lot to figure out. He says the berms will be ...

A man in his 30's is in custody in Vernon after two stolen vehicles crashed last evening. ' RCMP were called to the 9000 block of Tronson Road around 7 pm to a report of the crash of a small car. Poli...

Crews have been making good progress on three wildfires in the Falkland area that were first noticed last weekend. BC Wildfire Service Information officer Justine Hunse says two of them have been decl...