Category Archives: Vernon

The show will still go on as far as student bursaries from the Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre Society in 2020.Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on full public performances, the s...

UPDATE Monday Aug. 3 There are 41 active fires in B.C. today according to the BC Wildfire Service, with 19 of those in the Kamloops Fire Centre. One on Bobbie Burns Mountain north of Lumby is listed a...

UPDATE Aug. 2 RCMP and the BC Coroners Service are investigating following the discovery of a dead man inside a vehicle parked near downtown Vernon early Saturday afternoon. On August 1, 2020 at 12:46...

The RCMP are investigating a suspicious death at a home near Round Lake in the North Okanagan.The Southeast District Major Crime Unit has been called in.On July 30, shortly before 9:30 a.m., North Oka...

There are 50 new COVID-19 cases across the province and one new death from the virus, B.C.'s top health officials reported Friday. The joint statement from Health Minister Adrian Dix, Minister of Heal...

An animal abuse case in the North Okanagan that caught the public's attention last year has finally come to an end.The B.C. Prosecution Service says a North Okanagan woman, Carla Jean Christman, plead...

Beginning this fall, median barriers will be installed on sections of Highway 97A between Armstrong and Vernon in an effort to improve driver safety."Improving safety for people is our top priority an...

Vernon North Okanagan RCMP are investigating after a major crash shut Highway 97 north of Vernon for hours last night, at the intersection of Meadowlark Road east of Swan Lake.No one was seriously inj...

For Vaea Verbeeck and Bas van Steenbergen of Coldstream, it was a "dramatic, eventful day" (in the words of Verbeeck) of racing at Vernon's SilverStar Resort.The two emerged victorious, the first shar...

For the Elks Lodge in downtown Vernon, it will mean their doors can stay open and someday resume the meat draws, Friday night suppers, catering, and hall rentals that lets them help children access he...