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The city of Vernon says Okanagan Bench Road will reopen today following a landslide. The road was closed for several days for clean up and because water saturated the ground. The city says a geotechni...

Some of the best horseshoe throwers in the province could be making their way to Vernon. The Vernon Horseshoe club went before council to ask for their support in hosting the 2020 Provincial Champions...

BX/Swan Lake firefighters were called to a stove-top fire in the 73-hundred block of Old Kamloops Road around 11:40 a.m. The family evacuated safely. Fire chief Bill Wacey says there is "heavy smoke d...

Those nasty ticks are back in action. The small bugs are about the size of a sesame seed and feed on human and animal blood and sometimes transmit diseases. Ticks are prevalent throughout the Interior...

A Vernon man, described by police as a prolific offender, has pleaded guilty to breaking into a home last November while the residents were asleep. Twenty-five-year-old Sheldon Veness appeared in B.C....

An overdose alert has been issued by Interior Health and the BC Coroners Service -- warning of an increase in deadly carfentanil detections throughout the region. Carfentanil is a synthentic opioid 10...

More details have been revealed about the controversial overdose prevention site that is expected to set up shop in Vernon this summer. Interior Health has issued their request for proposal online for...

UPDATE: 4:30 p.m. BX Swan Lake fire crews took just under 90 minutes to knock down a grass fire on McLennan Road. The fire is reported to be out. ORIGINAL STORY: BX/Swan Lake fire crews are at the sce...

So far so good, says Armstrong Mayor Chris Pieper, following the completion of dredging along Meighan and Deep creeks. Pieper says the city is getting daily reports on the flooding situation and so fa...

The RCMP are investigating following a two-vehicle crash just before 11 a.m. this morning at Highway 6 and 15th Street. Vernon Fire Rescue captain Colin Clarke says there were single occupants in both...