Polson Park

• Stranger confronts two women with a knife at a Vernon, B.C. park

  The women were riding through Polson Park around 11 p.m. when they stopped briefly. That’s when they noticed a man step out from the shadows.

  Crime

  Apr 29, 2025
  
• Popular Vernon park undergoing fire mitigation work

  Starting as early as Monday, March 18,  crews will begin reducing potential fire fuels along the south-east boundary of Polson Park.

  Fire

  Mar 16, 2024
  
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• Harry Potter-inspired fantasy sport comes to Vernon

  The sport of quadball features a roster of 21 players on each team, with six to seven players per team on the field at a time.

  Sports

  Nov 12, 2023
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• Seriously injured victim prompts Vernon assault investigation

  Mounties in Vernon are investigating what they've called a 'serious assault' that took place a Vernon, B.C., park Sunday night.  

  Crime

  Jul 11, 2023
• Hundreds of kids get hooked on fishing in Vernon

  The 21st annual Kalamalka Fly Fishers Free Kids Fishing Weekend returned to the park where the group stocked the pond with 1,000 rainbow trout from Fresh Water Fisheries.

  Lifestyle

  May 7, 2023
• Vernon, B.C. RCMP investigating after physical confrontation at COVID demonstration

  Carrying signs with messages like "COVID is not a plot," Korry Zepik has been regularly counter-protesting at demonstrations against COVID restrictions.

  Oct 5, 2022
• ‘A remarkable event’: Looking back on the royal couple’s 1959 Okanagan stop

  The royal couple drew more than 15,000 people to the city that was populated with just 10,000 people at the time.

  Canada

  Sep 9, 2022
• Body pulled from creek in Vernon, senior’s death under investigation

  RCMP say the body was pulled from the creek in Polson Park on Friday night, and that despite life-saving efforts, the 81-year-old Vernon man was declared dead.

  Canada

  Aug 2, 2022
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• No criminality involved in death of badly burned Vernon man: RCMP

  Evidence gathered to date has led Vernon police officers to determine that criminality was not involved in the December death of a man found in Polson Park.

  Canada

  Jan 11, 2022
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• Vernon, B.C. man seriously burned in undisclosed circumstances, RCMP investigating

  Mounties didn't say how or where the burns were sustained, only that a 53-year-old Vernon, B.C. man was a victim of an incident they want more information about. 

  Crime

  Dec 22, 2021