Category Archives: Vernon

Vernon is one of 26 communities that will be part of a provincial homeless count in March and April.Kelowna, Penticton, and Kamloops are also on the list.Data from the counts will be used to improve s...

Two men have been arrested for breaking into parking meters in separate incidents in Vernon.A 39-year-old man was arrested Wednesday night after a citizen called police after seeing someone breaking i...

UPDATE Feb. 13 The Greater Vernon Advisory Committee has taken action to protect the Great Blue Heron population that nests in the north part of Vernon. Chair Akbal Mund tells Vernon Matters, after he...

Powerhouse Theatre has announced the next show in their season, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, a 2003 Governor General's Award-winning play by Canadian playwright Morris Panych. The unique and intriguing ...

Special Olympics BC's largest-ever provincial winter team will pursue personal bests at the 2020 Special Olympics Canada Winter Games in Thunder Bay Feb. 25-29. Comprised of 143 athletes with intellec...

Slippery conditions were a factor in a two-vehicle crash that saw a vehicle go over an embankment and into a Vernon yard Wednesday evening.RCMP said a vehicle travelling north on Pleasant Valley Road ...

Salmon Arm RCMP say a Vernon man in his thirties suffered serious injuries in a two-vehicle crash on Highway 97B last (Tuesday) night.An Armstrong man in his seventies was also injured.Police responde...

Vernon RCMP are asking the public for help in locating two people wanted on drug charges stemming from an investigation last year.Police say 26-year-old Parmveer Singh Bhangu is wanted on six counts o...

Vernon council has approved measures to make the city more cycling and micromobility friendly.The city will install temporary on-street bike parking corrals at two sites on 30th Avenue, at 30th Street...

Armstrong ratepayers will have to pay a new tax this year.Council has approved a 2.5 per cent infrastructure levy to build up a reserve for road and storm sewer projects."This will be specified strict...