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MUFFPOTS: North Okanagan business has hot idea for convenient comfort food
For people who don’t spend oodles of time snowmobiling or riding an ATV in the…
Cherryville artisan creates jewellery with loved one’s ashes
CHERRYVILLE – It may appear somewhat morbid to some, but artisan Helen Kovacs makes about…
Authorities investigating after Cherryville lumber accident
CHERRYVILLE – WorkSafe B.C. is investigating after a 31-year-old male was injured in a workplace…
Community turns ‘dark into light’ for Cherryville family who lost everything in house fire
CHERRYVILLE – Kicking through the ashes of her former home, Angelica Colombon de Rodriguez stumbled…
Lightning ignites new wildfires in North Okanagan, Shuswap
There’s a good chance you’ll notice some smoke in the hills around the Southern Interior…
Rescuers bring woman stuck on embankment to safety following North Okanagan car crash
VERNON – Vernon Search and Rescue came to the aid of a woman who got…
North Okanagan avalanche victim’s airbag didn’t deploy: Coroner
LANGUAGE ADVISORY NORTH OKANAGAN – The B.C. Coroners Service has finally released its findings into…
Police investigating violent home invasion in Cherryville
CHERRYVILLE – Police have launched an investigation into a violent home invasion that happened over…
Coroner sheds light on motorcycle crash that killed North Okanagan men
VERNON – The B.C. Coroners Service has released its findings into a 2015 motorcycle crash…
Relocating three North Okanagan grizzlies was ‘the last resort’
VERNON – Over the weekend, conservation officers tranquilized and relocated three grizzly bears — a…
Slide report reinforces concerns around logging activities in Cherryville
CHERRYVILLE – Improper drainage structures directly contributed to a landslide in a North Okanagan community,…
Unmarked and relatively unknown internment camp on Highway 6 getting recognized
VERNON – Most who stop at the nondescript pullout 12 kilometres from the Gold Panner…
Scant details released in alleged Cherryville kidnapping
CHERRYVILLE – Police are keeping mum on the details of an alleged kidnapping incident in…
Injured owl rescued near Cherryville, rehabilitated in Kamloops
CHERRYVILLE – It’s been a couple of months since a Cherryville family rescued an owl,…
UPDATE: Sledders lost in high risk avalanche zone near Cherryville found safe
CHERRYVILLE – Half a dozen snowmobilers were located safe and sound this morning thanks to…
First snowflakes fall on Vernon and area
NORTH OKANAGAN - Fall colours are really popping against a contrast of white this morning around parts of the North Okanagan. There are reports that the first snow has fallen around areas of Vernon, Lumby and Cherryville today, Nov. 5. The Kamloops area is also getting its first taste of winter this morning. Environment Canada...
Okanagan ranch offers $10,000 reward after finding poached cows
**CONTENT ADVISORY: GRAPHIC IMAGES** VERNON – A $10,000 reward is on the table for information…
Hundreds of North Okanagan deer heads still needed for disease study
“WE HAVE A THREE YEAR LIMIT ON THE PROJECT AND WE STILL NEED OVER 200 SAMPLES” CHERRYVILLE - They might be off-putting to some, but to a group of government researchers, deer heads from the Cherryville area are the key to stopping a potential disease outbreak in its tracks. Analyzing the lymph nodes found in...
Childhood friends killed in Vernon motorbike crash leave behind fiancées, families
LUMBY - Childhood friends James Folden and Trinity Bright were both living life to its fullest when a tragic motorbike crash cut their time short. Both were engaged to be married; Folden, 23, to Chelsea, his high school sweetheart and mother of his seven-week-old daughter, and Bright, 24, to the love of his life. Folden,...
Men who died in Vernon motorcycle crash identified
VERNON - The names of two men who died in a weekend motorcycle crash have been released by the B.C. Coroners Service. They were James Tyler Folden, 23, of Lumby, and Trinity James Dale Bright, 24, originally from Cherryville, but most recently residing in Canmore, Alberta. Folden was driving an offroad motorcycle with Bright as...
Aggressive cow killed Cherryville farmhand with deadly head butt
CHERRYVILLE - The death of a Yellowknife man who was attacked by an aggressive cow last summer was an accident, says the B.C. Coroners Service. Allen Donald Powder, 49, was moving cows from one corral to another at a farm in Cherryville on July 1. He’d worked for the farm owner’s company about 17 years...