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With that bylaw now in the books, the regional district says the 1.5-kilometre stretch of land could see construction work this year.

The franchise will now be known as the Quesnel River Rush, with the KIJHL’s board of governors unanimously approving the sale.

Last year, a two-kilometre section of the rail trail was completed in Enderby. This year, work will take place at a handful of locations.

A small North Okanagan community is starting to rally support for the family of Tatjana Stefanski, who died earlier this week in an incident described by RCMP as foul play.

Tatjana Stefanski's body was found in a wooded, North Okanagan area a week ago. Since then, her children and partner have gone into hiding, a family friend says.

A new multi-million dollar CT scanner at Vernon Jubilee Hospital (VJH) is expected to increase access to timely diagnoses and treatments for patients in the North Okanagan.

A Southern Interior rail trail project heralded for connecting the Shuswap to the North Okanagan is moving ahead, with one key part missing.

Fire crews in the North Okanagan are dealing with an early start to the wildfire season, fighting a blaze in the Creighton Valley area, near Lumby.

A North Okanagan man with a lengthy criminal history has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a man he'd been hanging out with one night in September 2021.

An Armstrong woman accused of fatally shooting her common-law partner three times pleaded not guilty as her long-awaited murder trial got underway Monday morning. 

Smith, born in 1975, is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Dakota Samoleksi in Spallumcheen on Sept. 20, 2021.

A report of threats made at a Lumby school resulted in the activation of a hold and secure protocol, school officials said in a release.

The regional district’s attempt to use the alternative approval process to push through the bylaw has met firm resistance from area residents.

Vernon-North Okanagan RCMP located a missing Yukon woman last seen in Vernon on Feb. 20.

Vernon RCMP say they were alerted of a person who was undergoing a mental-health or drug-related crisis on Tuesday morning.

Police say the possible weapon was found around 9:15 a.m., just off the Sidewinder Trail in the Cosens Bay area of Kalamalka Lake Provincial Park.

A new primary-care network will be established for the region, which will require around 75 new health-care providers.

“People in Vernon and around B.C. deserve good health care at every stage of life and that’s why we’re providing high-quality, long-term care,” Premier David Eby said.

The number of auto crimes reported in and around Vernon, B.C., are down this year, RCMP officials say. But they are still offering tips on how vehicle owners can reduce their risk.

“Criminality is suspected in the person’s death and the investigation has been turned over to the RCMP Southeast District Major Crimes Unit,” police said.