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ELECTION 2015: Mulcair would 'love nothing more' than to take Conservative stronghold of the North Okanagan-Shuswap
September 01, 2015 - 6:30 PM

VERNON - More than 300 locals at an NDP rally in Vernon today welcomed a special guest: the party’s national leader or, in their words, the next prime minister.
Vernon pedophile sentenced to over six years in jail for 'depraved' acts
September 01, 2015 - 4:42 PM

JUDGE SEES TO REMOVAL OF TATTOO 'TROPHY'
Local girl to make TV debut on First Dates Canada tonight
September 01, 2015 - 2:30 PM

KELOWNA - A local model and freestyle motocross rider will appear on the debut episode of a new TV show that films couples on first dates in all their awkward glory.
Big Brother Canada cast coming to Okanagan to help local girl with depression
September 01, 2015 - 1:23 PM

PEACHLAND – Cast members of TV game show Big Brother Canada will be in Peachland this weekend to help cheer up a local 15-year-old struggling with mental illness.
Performance audit looks at City of Vernon purchasing practices
September 01, 2015 - 11:30 AM

VERNON - B.C.’s auditor general has pulled back a curtain on the City of Vernon’s purchasing activities.
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THOMPSON: Junk drawers: No method to my indefensible organizational madness
OPINION Maybe everyone has that drawer, you know, the one where you stick things because you don’t know where else to put it. I hope - for your sake - you don’t have what I have, multiple drawers. I

Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Advocacy group calls on Vancouver to 'embrace' cannabis tourism after 4-20 'debacle'
VANCOUVER - The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op

Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each time Ignition Developments goes to the commission, i

ELECTION 2015: Mulcair would 'love nothing more' than to take Conservative stronghold of the North Okanagan-Shuswap