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Mayor Ken Sim gets $180,000 boost to his $1.3-million office budget

Vernon RCMP confirm they are investigating a suspected explosive device found inside a vehicle. About 10:30 a.m., police received a report of a man passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in the plaza parking lot on the 2700 block of 43rd Avenue.

The developer behind Oceanfront Squamish will develop the Somass Lands in the Vancouver Island city.

One man was shot, receiving non-life threatening injuries following a police incident

A public hearing is not required for zoning amendment bylaw

Three years ago, a moratorium was placed on all of the province’s 78 SAR teams and their 3,400 volunteer members, prohibiting them from adding new skills. It still hasn't been lifted.

The man had earlier killed a fellow boater at Discovery Marina and taken hostages

Nihal Maligaspe, 72, of Kamloops was sentenced in June to 3.5 years in federal prison for repeatedly raping his niece over a period of years

Vernon city council voted Monday to waive the $2,800 in fines the Watkins incurred since August of this year for living in their RV on a family farm.

The torched vehicle has been sitting in Tru Market Truck and Auto Sales lot since it was set ablaze last October, not long after Hamer-Jackson, the dealership's owner, was elected mayor.