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VNNOV2024
‘Bright and happy’: Vernon artist finds beauty in the mundane
Vernon artist Liz MacArthur loves to paint the little things she finds extraordinarily beautiful. What…
Vernon woman dedicated to helping senior pets over the rainbow bridge
Fostering senior dogs and cats takes a special kind of love as the animals are…
OKIB mother and daughter ensuring Indigenous food security with ‘food forest’
Mariel and Sienna Belanger, a Syilx mother and daughter duo from the Okanagan Indian Band,…
UPDATE: Missing Vernon woman located
UPDATE: Nov. 27, 2024 RCMP say a missing 29-year-old Vernon woman has been located and…
Suspect in custody after smash and grab at Coldstream business
A suspect is in custody after a smash and grab at a Coldstream business early…
Police release few details about shooting in Vernon parking lot
A gun was fired in the parking lot of a Vernon business last week. Officers…
‘It’s inhumane’: Vernon woman with dementia hopeful for medically assisted dying
Every year more people are choosing medical assistance in dying in the Interior Health Authority…
Syilx mother and daughter’s documentary ‘Horse Woman’ about more than horses
A North Okanagan mother and daughter are celebrating the release of their documentary about the…
Vernon arborist working without a permit fined $1,000
A Vernon arborist who continued to work without a permit after being warned has pleaded…
‘Deep injustice’: No jail for North Okanagan mom accused of role in son’s death
While there's no denying that former Lumby resident Keisha Marie McCrea assaulted her son Ethan…
Sorrento man killed in head-on crash with semi in Shuswap
A 40-year-old Sorrento man was killed Wednesday in a head-on collision with a tractor trailer.…
Report says housing could threaten Vernon drinking water and Kal Lake
A development proposal from a North Okanagan agricultural company could potentially decrease the drinking water…
Vernon man found not criminally responsible for killing his mother has day release extended
A Vernon man who was found not criminally responsible for killing his mother in 2017…
Tolko fined $75,000 for logging road that caused landslide
Tolko Industries is appealing a $75,000 fine it received after a logging road it built…
‘PRONE TO SIN’: OKIB elder suing Catholic church for historic abuse
Growing up at the Head of the Lake in the early 1960s, Laurie Wilson remembers…