Category Archives: Vernon

The District of Coldstream is changing the planned site for its Sept. 14 council meeting due to the COVID-19 pandemic guidelines.The meeting was to be at the Lavington Fire Hall, but will now instead ...

Residential home sales were up 43 per cent in August, compared to a year ago, in the region from Revelstoke to Peachland.The Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board said the 1,034 residential sales in Aug...

Motorists using Bella Vista Road in Vernon may need to take a detour Thursday (Sept. 3), as city crews install a sanitary utility.The one-day road closure will take place between Sunnyview Road and Or...

UPDATE 3:54 p.m. Three people are in custody after allegedly fleeing from police in a stolen vehicle in Vernon Wednesday afternoon (Sept. 2). RCMP say around 1:20 p.m., an officer with the Downtown En...

A non-profit society has received federal approval for a licence to operate a volunteer-driven, community FM radio station in Vernon.The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission gave th...

There have been 104 new cases of COVID-19 identified in B.C. as of Wednesday (Sept. 2), according to provincial health officials. Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie He...

A man that committed a bizarre robbery more than three years ago in Vernon, has been sentenced.Forty-year-old Andrew Robert Pigott broke into Cash Stop Loans on 27th Street through a roof vent on Apri...

The District of Coldstream has cancelled its fall garden waste/leaf drop-off program at its transfer station on Middleton Drive due to the COVID-19 pandemic."This action is in support of the public ga...

Crews are beginning work on adding a multi-use path between Kosmina Road and Highway 6 in Vernon.Starting Thursday (Sept. 3), northbound traffic on Middleton Way will be slightly re-routed to use the ...

The Folks on Spokes (FOS) program in Vernon has been busy since restarting over the summer.The project uses people with lived experience of substance use to help clean up the downtown area, with fundi...