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Fire crews were quick on the scene of an electrical fire that spread to some nearby grass in Vernon. Captain Doug Imrich from Vernon Fire Rescue says the site was just behind the former Pantry Restaur...

Another Funtastic Festival is in the books - and organizers are pleased with how the 33rd annual went. Executive director Tony Pallas says there were no major issues during the four day event at the D...

It was a good weekend for the lakes to recede. Tom Wilson with the Central Regional District's Emergency Operations Centre says both Okanagan Lake and Kalamalka Lake are down. "It looks like it's gone...

Organizers of Vernon's Canada Day festivities are pretty happy with how things went. President of the organizing committee, David Frost says Polson Park was busy with activities there. "Everything fro...

A Lower Mainland man died in a drowning on Shuswap Lake over the long weekend. Salmon Arm RCMP were called to a campground on Sunday where a 37 year old Surrey man who was on vacation had gone missing...

Vernon's mayor thinks the city may have to work a little harder to get to be noticed by an NDP government in Victoria. Akbal Mund is giving the NDP the benefit of the doubt, but he knows since the rid...

A group hoping to retain a large section of BX Ranch land for future green space is buoyed by the support it's getting. About 50 people turned out for a meeting to discuss the issue. The 55 hectare se...

It's believed at least two people are dead after an accident in the southbound lanes of the Coquihalla Highway near the Logan Lake turnoff this morning. Word is a vehicle hit a deer and then went off ...

Early Sunday evening Lake Country Fire Dept. responded to what initially appeared to be a brush fire and when they came on the scene discovered an office at the gravel pit and a vehicle on fire. Capta...

It was a Canada Day full of hot sun and typical outdoor Summer activities...that is except for Farley and friends at Big White Ski Resort. For them it was a day on the top of the slopes as a group of ...