Category Archives: Top News Stories

Spallumcheen is targeting this fall for a change from blue bag recycling to Recycle BC. That's the program used in Greater Vernon, Armstrong and much of BC. Mayor Christine Fraser says council has app...

UPDATE Sunday: The victim has been identified on social media as Ruth Blencoe. Ms. Blencoe ran a dance studio in the Vernon area, and was well known for her coaching on the annual fundraiser Dancing w...

A helicopter extraction was needed for an injured, but very fortunate snowbiker. On Saturday over 50 people from Western Canada and the US were attending a snowbike event on Park Mountain, north of Lu...

In BCHL play it's goes down as the 'unofficial final', as the Merritt Centennials defeated Vernon 4-3 in Overtime. No official explanation from the BCHL regarding the status of that game is available ...

A ticket holder in B-C won Friday night's 25-point-nine million-dollar Lotto Max jackpot. Though the exact location hasn't been released, the ticket was purchased in B.C.'s Fraser-Nicola region, which...

It's a device that could mean life and death to a person in cardiac arrest and now schools in School District 83 will be equipped with them . The school district says that they will be phasing in AED'...

Drivers have been reporting slick conditions along Highway 97. A car went into the ditch along Highway 97 near Okanagan College. There is no word on any injuries. An accident earlier this morning clos...

Hundreds of athletes marched their way through Kal Tire Place on Thursday night for the opening ceremonies of the Special Olympics B.C Winter Games .   The BC Special Olympics Winter Games announ...

Freezing temperatures took out a couple of water pipes in the Vernon area. Crews have been dealing with a water main break at Schram road in the BX area of Vernon. The city says five properties are af...

People won't be able to buy gasoline in Falkland for another week, meaning the closest gas is a station in Monte Lake, or further away in Vernon, Kamloops or Salmon Arm. The community between Vernon a...