News Items tag as: VNMAY2017

After living their dream, Falkland Pub owners are ready to sell
June 02, 2017 - 9:00 PM

FALKLAND - Along the highway stretch from Kamloops to Vernon sits a small community called Falkland, home to the only pub between those two cities.
UPDATE: ‘I wasn’t her boyfriend:’ Man convicted of Caitlin Potts assault explains
June 01, 2017 - 4:18 PM

“IT WAS REALLY DISTURBING. THE BEATING SHE GOT… I JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT STOP”
Emergency operations activated in Enderby as flood watch issued for Shuswap River
June 01, 2017 - 12:46 PM

ENDERBY - As the Shuswap River rises the City of Enderby is preparing for flood risks.
Spring conditions challenge Highway crews across the Okanagan
May 31, 2017 - 4:43 PM

From mudslides to washouts to sinkholes, Ministry of Transportation crews have been kept hopping lately.
UPDATE: Highway crews working to repair Highway 97 in Vernon after sinkhole opens up
May 31, 2017 - 2:05 PM

VERNON - A large sinkhole continues to impact traffic at one of Vernon’s busiest intersections.
Teen attacks another with bear spray at Kal Beach
May 31, 2017 - 11:21 AM

COLDSTREAM – A recent incident at Kalamalka Lake proves that teenagers, alcohol and bear spray don’t mix.
April worst month so far for 2017 drug overdose deaths in B.C.
May 31, 2017 - 10:37 AM

The number of suspected drug overdose deaths in April measures out to roughly four lives lost daily across B.C.
Brace yourselves, severe thunderstorm watch issued for Okanagan and Shuswap
May 31, 2017 - 10:08 AM

A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for the Okanagan and Shuswap this morning.
Robbers couldn’t get past security at licensed North Okanagan grow-op
May 30, 2017 - 8:00 PM

“ARE YOU DEAD?" FRIEND TEXTS. "YEAH BABE, NO, BUT I LOOK GOOD IN A SKI MASK."
RCMP want to speak with man who offered North Okanagan child a ride
May 30, 2017 - 4:59 PM

ARMSTRONG - Police are investigating a suspicious occurrence in the North Okanagan last week in which a man reportedly offered a child a ride.
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THOMPSON: Is dining etiquette a thing of the past?
OPINION I read a recent article that tried to make a case for getting rid of some rules of dining etiquette. Those rules, said the writer, “are made to be broken.” The writer’s logic seems flawed, at

$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

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

Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro

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