Category Archives: Vernon

Blessings in a backpack were handed out to roughly 200 people experiencing poverty in Vernon. The program run by the Upper Room Mission is in its fifth year and provides personal care items and warm w...

Shoppers at the Village Green Centre received a gift Monday but not the kind found in stores. Representatives of the City of Vernon, BC Transit and the Village Green Shopping Centre cut the ribbon for...

Drivers in the North Okanagan have been asked to keep an eye out and slow down for workers on highways 97 and 1 this week as crews are out filling potholes that have emerged since snow and rain hit th...

Three years after they were moved, bus stops have now returned to the Village Green Shopping Centre.The stops were moved to 48th Avenue in 2016 in response to safety concerns, but that made it difficu...

A three million dollar upgrade to the Pat Duke Arena in Lumby is scheduled to get under way early in 2020.The project is in the detailed design phase, and construction firms will be sought in February...

A close friend of a tow truck operator who suffered serious injuries from a collision while on the job says people need to take extra care around working vehicles on highways. Mike Horsley says his fr...

RCMP have notified the Independent Investigations Office of British Columbia (IIO BC) of a shots fired incident in Kelowna which has resulted in injuries to one man.Just after midnight on December 22,...

A women's advocate is calling for stricter justice after the sentencing of 39-year-old Curtis Sagmoen.B.C Supreme Court Justice Alison Beames sentenced Sagmoen to time served plus 36 months probation ...

Emergency crews are responding to a report of a multi-vehicle car accident in the 8700 block of Silver Star road. Several cars are in the ditch just after Forsberg rd. Reportedly no one is hurt. Curre...

Update 1:45 p.m.A man who approached a sex trade worker with a gun near Falkland two years ago, has been sentenced to time served plus 36 months of probation.Curtis Sagmoen, 39, was found guilty in B....