Category Archives: Top News Stories

It's rare for a conservation officer to be attacked by a cougar -- but that's what happened in the Kootenay town of Salmo this week. Chris Doyle from the Conservation Service says the officer was resp...

Update: 8:30 a.m. Feb. 16: Vernon RCMP have located a missing woman from our city who had not been seen since Tuesday. 29-year old Lorna Bostock who had recently moved here was been found safe and sou...

Police had at least one firearm drawn as they dealt with a report of a person with a possible weapon at Vernon's Greyhound bus depot. Cst. Jocelyn Noseworthy says no arrests were made, and no one was ...

A woman and two men have been charged after an armed robbery at the Armstrong 7-11. A woman entered the store just after midnight Tuesday, produced a knife, and left in a car with money and merchandis...

Taxpayers in Armstrong need to brace themselves for a significant increase in taxes this year to pay for RCMP policing costs. Armstrong's population has gone over 5-thousand which means they no longer...

A Vernon woman is expected to be sentenced later this month for a crash that killed an off-duty nurse and injured another. 39 year old Lori Vance will be in provincial court Feb. 27th. "We anticipate ...

The deadline for tenders to close on the Greater Vernon Multi-Use Complex next to Kal Tire Place is February 24th. A total of 18 contractors attended a mandatory meeting and have expressed interest wi...

Local efforts were considered successful to get a provincial petition signed in Vernon last week in support of paramedics being made an essential service like police and firefighters. Upwards of 600 s...

Fantastic. That's how Vernon Winter Carnival chair Deb White describes how the 57th annual event went, much of which she attributes to the Canadian flavour. "I think everybody got involved this year d...

The BC government is promising financial relief for taxpayers in next week's budget. Tuesday's throne speech hinted at that, talking about a growing budget surplus, believed to be around 2 billion dol...