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Mother, son duo arrested in connection with Lumby drug rip
April 14, 2015 - 10:58 AM

VERNON - A mother and son duo are facing charges after allegedly stealing medical marijuana plants from a licensed grower in Lumby.
Lumby man's offence not so different from his last
April 14, 2015 - 8:08 AM

LUMBY - It was deja-vu for a North Okanagan cop dealing with an impaired driving case.
UPDATE: Crews battle grass fire in Enderby
April 13, 2015 - 4:29 PM

ENDERBY – Smoke could be seen for miles as volunteers with the Enderby Fire Department fought a grass fire tMonday afternoon.
Vernon RCMP investigate possibility of impaired driving in weekend crash
April 13, 2015 - 1:03 PM

VERNON - Police are treating a car crash which knocked out power to hundreds of residents as an impaired driving case.
Vernon senior could face charges after five hour standoff with police
April 13, 2015 - 11:58 AM

VERNON - An elderly man arrested after a five hour standoff with police is looking at possible charges.
Teen killed in fatal fall from cliff not using climbing gear: RCMP
April 13, 2015 - 11:24 AM

VERNON - It looks like an 18-year-old wasn’t using any safety equipment when he decided to go rock climbing and wound up taking a fatal fall from a rock face near Vernon on the weekend.
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No fine for Kelowna brewery that sold beer to undercover minor
A Kelowna brewery successfully avoided a fine for selling beer to an undercover minor, but it did fire the employee. The province's liquor regulator decided against handing down a $7,000 fine after an 18-year-old bought a six-pack from

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

Don't demolish old Kelowna homes to make way for development, recycle or move them
As Kelowna’s population grows the city is trying to densify housing and that means replacing single-family homes, but a business has proposed that those homes can be repurposed rather than destroyed. Renewal Development and Light Hous

Mother, son duo arrested in connection with Lumby drug rip