Category Archives: Top News Stories

Agricultural customers in the Greater Vernon Water District will be seeing their rates increasing over the next three years. Currently between $950-thousand and a million, fifty thousand dollars is co...

British Columbians -- and others around the world -- are asked to take part in the 11th annual Earth Hour this weekend. People are asked to turn off lights and power down electronics between 8:30 and ...

Update: 4:45 pm Police and the Coroner's service are investigating after a body was discovered in the Silver Star Road area of Vernon. The Vernon/North Okanagan RCMP Detachment were called to a report...

The head number-cruncher with the City of Vernon is moving on. Kevin Bertles has been the Director of Financial Services and Chief Financial Officer the last 15 years. He has submitted a letter of ret...

Some Greater Vernon homes and businesses will be using a different water source next week. The regional district says the Duteau Creek source will be turned off the week of March 27th for planned main...

The BC government has announced the construction of 55 new campsites in the Thompson Okanagan which will be ready for the upcoming camping season. They includes eight sites at Okanagan Lake South Prov...

More Provincial funding announcements for our area today...these from the Ministry of Education. $1.6 million dollars is being given to both the Vernon School District and the North Okanagan-Shuswap D...

The spring clean-up of streets around Vernon is underway. Public works manager James Rice says the street sweepers started a couple weeks later than normal due to the longer winter. "It usually goes f...

One of Coldstream's best known businesses is the latest to voice concerns about Vernon's upgrade to Kalamalka Lake Road. Alexander's owner Gary Batula says closing the road for six weeks, along with d...

A bylaw that would prevent re-construction or future building of docks in both Kalamalka and Okanagan Lakes in Lake Country has been rejected. A public hearing on the issue drew about 70 upset residen...