Expansion

What the Vernon airport is today and what it could be 20 years from now

VERNON - Seated on a flat landing below orchard-brushed hillsides on the west side of town, the Vernon airport is a little known nook of activity where corporate jets offload business people, ambulances airlift patients to hospital and adrenaline-hunters enjoy the rush of a freefall. It’s small enough that curious onlookers might be treated to...

Satellite images show just how much Vernon has changed in 30 years

VERNON - It’s no surprise the Vernon area has grown over the last 30 years, but now you can see just what those changes look like from above. This incredible time lapse of satellite images from 1984 to 2012 on Google Earth Engine shows how different the city looks today. You will see new building...

More beer on tap with Okanagan Spring expansion

VERNON - More beer will soon flow from the Okanagan Spring facility in Vernon. Sleeman Breweries is investing $4.4 million to expand the facility and increase capacity by around 20 per cent annually. “Thirty years later, Okanagan Spring is still brewed in Vernon where it was first founded,” Sleeman spokesperson Dave Klaassen said at a...