Category Archives: Top News Stories

The 2017 Vernon Hot Air Balloon Rally begins tomorrow (Friday) with the first flight in the morning for the 14 craft that are in the city. The big event tomorrow (Friday) night is the Balloon Glow at ...

It turns out the pepper spray incident that shut down Vernon's Upper Room Mission over the noon hour Wednesday was an accident. There was no altercation or anything else....so the police have been cal...

A Vernon orchardist is still not sure if he will compete for the presidency of the BC Fruit Growers Association this Friday in Penticton. Jeet Dukhia was nominated last fall but he has also become the...

Oscar nominee Casey Affleck will be shooting part of a film in the Okanagan this month. The "Manchester By The Sea" star will be in the Osoyoos area for the movie "Light of My Life," which he also wro...

Silver Star Mountain Resort's 2nd Annual Emergency Services Day fundraiser for Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation raised $13,000 for the hospital's Emergency Department. The event was held January 21....

Police are looking for suspects after a violent home invasion in Cherryville. Mounties say it took place in the early morning hours on Saturday but don't say where. "In the incident unknown suspects f...

Vernon's Upper Room Mission had to be evacuated after someone discharged pepper spray in the dining room. Nobody was injured, but about 70 people had to leave the building during the lunch hour today....

A man shot by police in Salmon Arm is in intensive care in hospital -- and the man's mother feels the Mounties used excessive force. Cindy Winter makes the claim in a Facebook post, saying her 22 year...

Property owners in Lake Country will be facing a 3.23% tax increase this year. Council passed 2nd & 3rd readings of the budget Tuesday night for a budget that includes a 1.5% hike for the transpor...

It's an honour students, staff, and parents can all be proud of. So says Ellison Elementary's Jacquie Taylor who made the list of Canada's outstanding principals by the Learning Partnership. She was o...