News Items tag as: VNMAY2025

Court orders curfew for Vernon teen guilty of two violent assaults
June 06, 2025 - 6:00 AM

A few months before a 14-year-old Vernon girl jumped a one-time friend outside a house party, she turned up at Clarence Fulton Secondary School looking to fight another friend she had a beef with.
iN PHOTOS: Photographer captures beauty of twilight, night sky over Shuswap Lake
June 04, 2025 - 4:00 AM

Sicamous landscape photographer Joy Daniels captures the changing light and moods over Shuswap Lake at twilight and into the night while Northern lights flicker and the moon waxes and wanes.
Vernon man wins $630,000 playing a lottery slot online
May 30, 2025 - 2:20 PM

A Vernon man was bored while waiting for his friend to arrive so he decided to play a lottery slot online.
What 400 ostriches in the Kootenay and the freedom convoy have in common
May 29, 2025 - 6:00 AM

Canada’s politically Conservative voices that rallied behind the so-called freedom convoy during the pandemic, as well as some more controversial figures, have taken up the cause to save the Edgewood ostriches.
iN PHOTOS: Wildlife abounds at peaceful, must-see nature park in Vernon
May 28, 2025 - 4:00 AM

The sparkling water of Swan Lake in Vernon is easy to see for drivers along Highway 97 or those travelling the winding Old Kamloops Road, and there are many great reasons to stop at the nature reserve on the southwest end of it.
Dispute between Vernon neighbours over tree pruning ends with legal challenge
May 27, 2025 - 7:00 PM
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A neighbourly dispute about overhanging tree branches has left a Vernon senior housing society in the red after it failed in its legal challenge to get its neighbour to pay for pruning.
Number of City of Vernon staff making $100,000 doubled in 5 years
May 26, 2025 - 6:00 PM

More than 100 employees working at the City of Vernon made salaries of more than $100,000 last year. And 27 members of staff took home more than $150,000.
'Very good year': Bumper crop of morel mushrooms in Thompson-Okanagan
May 26, 2025 - 6:00 AM
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Foragers are having fun picking morel mushrooms in the Thompson-Okanagan region this spring as there is an abundance this year.
iN NUMBERS: The planned CFIA ostrich cull in Edgewood
May 23, 2025 - 5:00 AM

Do you think you could take an ostrich in a fight?
UPDATE: Missing Vernon man located
May 22, 2025 - 2:40 PM

UPDATE: May 22, 2025
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Kelowna strata management firm fined $15K for not doing any managing
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