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Vernon Transit Shelter Removed After Safety Concerns

A transit shelter located on 34th Street near the Wholesale Club in Vernon has been removed following concerns over multiple small fires...

Trans Canada Closed Rogers Pass

Trans Canada Eastbound Closed After Motor Vehicle Incident

Environment Canada Weather Warning BC Interior Highways

Heavy Snowfall Warning Issued for BC Interior Highways By Environment Canada Saturday December 8, 2024: Environment Canada has issued...

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Jan 291 min read

Avalanche Risk High in BC

The atmospheric river from Hawaii hitting BC is causing significant mountain snowmelt with minimal snowfall. With the warmer weather...

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Jan 291 min read

Satellite Communication Speeds Rescue

Vernon Search and Rescue (VSAR) successfully rescued two lost snowmobilers east of Enderby in Hunter Range. VSAR received assistance from...

Serious Accident on Highway 97 at Monte Lake

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Jan 161 min read

Serious Accident on Highway 97 at Monte Lake

January 16 9:47: 911 operators received reports of a serious MVI possibly involving multiple vehicles and entrapment on Highway 97 near...

Downtown Vernon Apartment Fire Reaches 3 Alarms

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Jan 131 min read

Downtown Vernon Apartment Fire Reaches 3 Alarms

On Saturday evening, around 7 PM, Vernon Fire Rescue responded to reports of a mattress fire in a multi-dwelling building located in...

Highway 6 through Coldstream Closed After Motor Vehicle Accident

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Dec 15, 20231 min read

Highway 6 through Coldstream Closed After Motor Vehicle Accident

Once again, an accident has closed Highway 6 through Coldstream. Approximately at 8:45 AM, emergency responders from Coldstream and...

Pair Seek Shelter In Vernon Self Storage Unit.

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Dec 9, 20231 min read

Pair Seek Shelter In Vernon Self Storage Unit.

BX Swan Lake Fire Rescue was dispatched to a Vernon Self Storage business after reports two people had been trapped in one of the units...

Alleged Vernon Gun-Toting Suspect Still at Large

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Dec 6, 20232 min read

Alleged Vernon Gun-Toting Suspect Still at Large

Alleged Gun-Toting Suspect Still at Large: Public Assistance Needed in Vernon Incident. Vernon RCMP are seeking public assistance in...

Winter Has Arrived in the North Okanagan!

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Dec 2, 20232 min read

Winter Has Arrived in the North Okanagan!

Attention Skiers: Good news, winter enthusiasts! Local roads and ski hills in the North Okanagan region are blanketed with snow,...

Vernon, Coldstream Reach Deal For Recreation Service

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Dec 1, 20231 min read

Vernon, Coldstream Reach Deal For Recreation Service

11th Hour Deal Hammered Out December 1st, 2023: In a last-minute agreement on December 1, 2023, the City of Vernon, District of...

Highway 3 Rock Slide Closes Road Between Keremeos and Princeton

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Nov 6, 20231 min read

Highway 3 Rock Slide Closes Road Between Keremeos and Princeton

Breaking News: Rock Slide Forces Closure of Highway 3 in Okanagan-Shuswap Region, Properties Evacuated November 6, 2023: Keremeos, BC -...

Reports multiple people transported to Kelowna Hospital from Backcountry

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Jan 23, 20231 min read

Reports multiple people transported to Kelowna Hospital from Backcountry

Update January 24, 2023 Of the 4 victims from the 2 avalanches that occurred in the Monashee Mountain Range, South of Revelstoke, 2 have...

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Jan 10, 20231 min read

Tragedy Strikes the Nelson Police Force

January 10 2023: Two Officers from the Nelson BC Police department were caught in a deadly avalanche 60km North of the city around noon...

BC Housing Sales Down Over 30% from 2021

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Dec 16, 20221 min read

BC Housing Sales Down Over 30% from 2021

BC residential sales dropped over 50 percent from their peak in the month of November 2021 compared to November 2022 according to the BC...

Illicit Drugs Decriminalized in British Columbia

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Jun 1, 20222 min read

Illicit Drugs Decriminalized in British Columbia

This is not the legalization of illicit drugs: Federal Minister Bennett Canadian Federal Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and...

Exemption Allows BC Travelers to Drive Through Washington State to Get Home

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Nov 17, 20212 min read

Exemption Allows BC Travelers to Drive Through Washington State to Get Home

UPDATE : People stranded and prevented from getting home because of washed out BC roads are reporting you should bring proof you've had...

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Nov 17, 20211 min read

BC Declares State of Emergency

November 17, 2021: The B.C. government declared a provincial state of emergency today. The goal is to speed the restoration of...

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Nov 2, 20211 min read

BC Transit Cancels All Bus Service

November 7th: Black ice forced BC transit to cancel all bus s ervices in the Prince George Area until traction sand could be applied to...

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Sep 5, 20212 min read

Coming soon, B.C.'s COVID Vaccine Card:

Premier Horgan has outlined a plan that prohibits anyone who hasn't been vaccinated from entering venues not deemed "essential". Starting...

BC Males account for 80% of 1,011 illicit drug deaths in 2021.

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Sep 1, 20214 min read

BC Males account for 80% of 1,011 illicit drug deaths in 2021.

Reports of overdose deaths are not new, neither are news items telling of alarming increases in the number of illicit toxic drug...

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Aug 24, 20212 min read

BC's Rules for the 2021-22 School Year

Health and safety measures for the 2021-22 school year Jennifer Whiteside, Minister of Education, announced Tuesday morning how British...