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With the BC election campaign winding down, the party leaders are making a number of stops in the final days. John Horgan of the NDP will be in Vernon Saturday morning at 10 for a rally at candidate B...

A trial date has been set for a man charged with attempted murder in the Enderby area. 59 year old Norman Dybdal will be tried in BC Supreme Court in Salmon Arm starting June 19. Dybdal is accused of ...

The NDP says forestry jobs have been disappearing at an alarming rate in BC -- and they put some of the blame on the Liberal government. The party's reps for Vernon Monashee and Shuswap held a media e...

A Vernon player was taken in the first round of the Western Hockey League bantam draft today. Centre Ben King was selected 13th overall by the Swift Current Broncos. King is with the Pursuit of Excell...

A word of warning for people living in the vicinity of the Duteau Creek water reservoirs. The Regional District of North Okanagan says the Aberdeen and Haddo reservoirs are at full capacity. Greater V...

The Vernon Pickleball Association has scored a major victory with local government. The Greater Vernon Advisory Committee has agreed in principle to provide the club with a $300,000 grant, and a site ...

The Regional District of North Okanagan has set the process in motion to seek approval to borrow funds for its share of the proposed North Okanagan Rail Trail. Board Chair Bob Fleming says directors d...

Everything from the need for a highway bypass around Vernon -- to how to combat drug addiction -- were brought up at a forum for the Vernon Monashee candidates. About 300 people were on hand for the e...

The North Okanagan Hospice Society has launched a monthly donor campaign in celebration of Canada's 150th birthday Executive director Ruth Edwards says the goal is to gain 150 monthly donors at an ave...

BC logging groups are facing uncertainty as they meet in Vernon Thursday, in advance of the Interior Logging Association's annual conference & trade show. I-L-A General manager Wayne Lintott says ...