Category Archives: Vernon

British Columbia is reporting 12 new Covid-19 cases since Monday, bringing the number of active cases to 162. Sixteen of the active cases are in hospital with four in intensive or critical care. There...

UPDATE The remains of a missing North Okanagan man have been found. Police say a person kayaking on the north end of Okanagan Lake discovered human remains floating off shore today and a police underw...

North Okanagan residents are encouraged to be prepared for the wildfire season, and to reduce the risk of fires around their home and community.The Regional District of North Okanagan says that includ...

A Vernon resident said she was woken up by a car alarm that wouldn't stop, followed by seeing a car engulfed in flames. The resident on 24th Avenue near 39th Street in south Vernon, said she was one o...

The Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA) and Community Futures offices around the region have agreed to work together to rebuild the tourism industry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.The g...

Levels of the Shuswap River are declining but remain unseasonably high due to the wet weather, and due to elevated levels of the South Thompson River, which the Shuswap is a tributary. The City of End...

British Columbia is reporting six more deaths from the Covid-19 virus since Friday. Dr. Bonnie Henry said the deaths were all at long term care homes, four in the Vancouver Coastal health region, and ...

A hearing to determine the admissibility of Crown evidence is underway today in a Vernon murder case. Jacqueline Nicole Leavins, born in 1978, is facing a charge of second degree murder in the death o...

Police had to use a Taser to arrest a man accused of assaulting another man, and other people, at Kal Beach in Coldstream Sunday evening. RCMP received multiple reports of a man assaulting people at t...

Part of Vernon's downtown could one day be closed off to vehicles as a way to improve the shopping experience.City council has given the Downtown Vernon Association leeway to explore the idea for 30th...