Category Archives: Top News Stories

The City of Vernon plans to start its line painting program May 1. The program will run five to six weeks and contractors will be working through the evening and early morning hours. The project is sp...

A proposed restructuring of Enderby area schools is still getting a rough ride from some parents. Dozens showed up at a meeting last night with trustee Mike McKay. Part of the plan is to move Grade 6 ...

Five organizations are benefiting from Funtastic Sports Society's annual community grant program this year. Five thousand dollars each are going to Vernon Track and Field, Vernon Ski Club and the Nort...

With BC's election campaign down to the final two weeks, voters are looking to find out more about the candidates. Kiss FM will host a forum for the Vernon-Monashee candidates Wednesday night starting...

There is a new plan for the city owned property known as the Hesperia Lands. Vernon council has decided to subdivide the 69 acre site in the 6400 block of Okanagan Avenue. Nineteen acres on the northe...

The City of Vernon will be joining observances of the National Day of Mourning this Friday. The day honours the memory of workers who have been killed, injured, or suffered illnesses as a result of wo...

Police found the getaway device -- but not the suspect -- after an armed robbery at a Vernon business. Mounties say a man entered the Cash Stop on 27th Street around 8:30 this morning. He produced a w...

Work on the Kalamalka Lake Road/Okanagan Rail Trail Connector project is expected to get underway in a couple of weeks now that city council has increased the budget. Council has approved spending an ...

Work has officially started on the second arena at Kal Tire Tire Place. The 400 seat, 13 million dollar facility, which is being added at the north end of the site, which is currently parking, was app...

Details are still being worked out for a rainbow crosswalk in Vernon. The eight colour crosswalk is to go on 30th avenue between 33rd and 34th streets. The city's Transportation manger Amanda Watson s...