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This week’s Heritage Field Trip was to be to the Fintry Estate & Manor. Located…

In March of 2020, Vernon’s Okanagan Spirits Craft Distillery received a gold medal for their…

Cornelius O’Keefe arrived at the head of Okanagan Lake in 1867, with his partners Thomas…

The Allan Brooks Nature Centre, perched on a grassy knoll overlooking Vernon, memorializes a conservationist…

Hwistesmexe’qen, known more commonly as N’Kwala or Nicola, was a 19th-century Indigenous leader who exemplified…

Content warning: The following story contains difficult subject matter, including a residential school experience. Please…

Vernon’s COVID-19 vaccination program is well-underway, with more than half of North Okanagan adults having…

Near the entrance to the Vernon Recreation Centre, a humble plaque in the shade of…

In September of 1862, the S.S. Tynemouth arrived in Victoria to the great excitement of…

May is Asian Heritage Month, and this year’s theme is “Recognition, Resilience, and Resolve.” Vernon…

She was a mother to seven of her own children, and honorary “Granny” to dozens…

March 8 is International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and…

Perhaps he was trying to take some of the attention away from his Marchioness sister,…

The Vernon Winter Carnival is beginning in just over two weeks, and for those of…