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Two men spent a very cold night out in the wilderness after going snowmobiling in the North Okanagan. The men left Monday morning from the Fintry area on Westside Road, west of Vernon, and failed to r...

Highway 97 has reopened to traffic north of Summerland, just over a month after a rockslide closed it down. The slide came down Jan. 31, and initially the road stayed open, but more slope activity and...

Area where cyclist was hit by vehicle at 25th Ave. and 34A Street the night of Feb. 20 (Google) RCMP are putting out an appeal for witnesses in a hit and run incident last month in Vernon. Back on Feb...

Roughly 20 employees at the Good Samaritan Heron Grove retirement facility in Vernon staged a demonstration Monday, demanding better recruitment and retainment strategies for employees. HEU member Jul...

Workers at a Vernon extended care home will take part in a protest this afternoon to highlight a lack of progress in contract talks, and the difficult working conditions they say they have to deal wit...

Five suspects have been arrested by police around Kelowna in a drug-related forcible confinement case. It's in connection with a man suffering serious non-life threatening injuries last week after all...

The Emergency Response Team was brought in to resolve an overnight incident at a Kelowna residential facility where man was thought to have a firearm. "RCMP received a report of commercial panic alarm...

An Armstrong woman accused of setting a string of fires in the city last march will see matters surrounding the case adjourned until Thursday March, 7, 2019 . In court, the Crown presented a joinder a...

Is the North Okanagan ready for a program to divert organic food waste into composting programs? That's what the Regional District of North Okanagan is looking to find out as it sends the idea to its ...

Armstrong's City Hall opened 100 years ago, but may not have many years left. The City will hold a centennial celebration May 16th, 2019 for the building which originally also housed Spallumcheen and ...