It was hardly a classic championship playoff game in scorching Kamloops Memorial Arena Wednesday night.

Andrew Ranger won almost $10,000 as he drove his Tide Ford Fusion #27 to clear victory in last summer's A&W Cruisin’ The Dub 300 in Vernon.

The UBC Okanagan Heat looked to Vernon and added two major talents for their men's volleyball team.

The Vernon Paddling Centre, home of the Vernon Racing Canoe Club, is making a splash on Okanagan Lake this weekend.

The Vernon Pee Wee A Expos stopped Sorrento 14-5 and bowed 9-6 to Salmon Arm in a pair of minor baseball playoff games last weekend.

The Vernon Re/Max Tigers were hoping for a packed house Wednesday night at Civic Arena. Instead, they got an empty one.

On paper, it resembled a blowout. The first-place Revelstoke Stallions versus the last-place Concept Physio.

Tina Garrison supplied two goals as the Goplen Drillers grounded the Tillicum Controllers 4-0 in North Okanagan Women's Soccer Association Masters Division action Tuesday night at Marshall Field #5.

An night of contrasts is the best way to describe the Game 1 of the Shaw Cup final between the Armstrong Shamrocks and Kamloops Rattlers Monday night in front of another packed house at the Nor-Val Sports Centre in Armstrong.

It looks like cats do have extra lives after all. Even big ones.

There will be two new faces on the Okanagan College board when it convenes again this fall. The provincial government has appointed Doug Manning and Sunddip Nahal to one-year terms.

Employees are back to work at a North Okanagan company.

One has to re-think strategies when sales fall off like they have for this last month.

A day of boating on Shuswap River was rudely interrupted for Valley Auction owner Don Raffan Sunday when he heard the fire at Tolko Industries was threatening his business.

Housing construction continues to expand in the North Okanagan.

Diana Catherine and the Thrusty Tweeters are heading west this summer, as they launch a six-week, five-provinces tour of western Canada.

Her career began on stage at a Seaton Secondary School production of The Hobbit, and it has soared to the silver screen in the Hollywood blockbuster The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

The unlikely nexus of northern B.C. and a Caribbean island is manifested in the persona of musician (singer/songwriter/guitarist) Alex Cuba. The singer, who now calls Smithers home, brings the sound of sunny climes via guitar driven rhythms to his eponym

The sixth annual Carr’s Landing Art Tour and Sale is coming up, and this year it has expanded to include three new artists.

Sometimes when I watch old Andy Griffith re-runs late at night, I wish I could live in Mayberry. There’s just something about the rural, idyllic simplicity and sentimental feel of such a world that technological progress has since sort of messed u

Loverboy fans are working for the long weekend when the iconic Canadian band takes the stage at the Vernon MotoPlex Speedway and Event Park Friday.

The Lake Country Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of their new exhibition titled Mixed Messages, featuring artists Dawn Emerson and Angelika Jaeger.

One of the hardest things about this festival business, well besides the small stuff like the site, stages, porta-potties, contracts, signage, production, lighting, vendors, scheduling 200 of my best friends to make it all happen, and the rules (does ther

Have you Had it Long, Madam? (Tales from The Roadshow) is a unique stage show about BBC TV’s highly successful and long-running series, the Antiques Roadshow, presented by two of its most popular experts, Hilary Kay and Paul Atterbury, at the Verno

Dancing with the Vernon Stars steps out in a different direction this year. In previous years, the stars have partnered with professional dance instructors to dazzle the judges and win audience votes. This year, five local celebrity couples have been taki

In 1980, people were wondering who shot J.R., the U.S. boycotted the Moscow Olympics Post-It Notes were introduced, and MTV had yet to be invented.

Dear Annie: I am 55 and have been married to Jim, age 73, for five years. Jim’s wife died six years before we met, and his two children became furious when he began dating, saying he was being unfaithful. They badgered Jim until he deeded them his

Friends of a Vernon family with a baby with medical problems are asking the community to help.

The children, their families and Pringle wish to announce and celebrate the golden anniversary of Bob and Jackie Jones. This wonderful union that has lasted 50 short years started July 30, 1960.

The story of mental illness is more likely to be silent than to be told. Something has to change, and for Michael Schratter the change starts with biking across six continents and 30 countries to talk about the stigma and how schools can help.

The Kingfisher Interpretive Centre Society (KICS) of Enderby, invites everyone to celebrate the return of the salmon Aug. 7 with its annual salmon barbecue fundraiser.

Editor’s note: This week, Tannis Nelson fills in for Fred Lyall.

Organizers of O’Keefe Cowboy Days promise “you’ll get to meet a real cowboy.”

In the heat of summer we all want to cut our cooking time and keep the heat out of the kitchen and so I have a few tips to offer today (especially for those who don’t have air conditioning).