The Ridge Meadows RCMP are praising their police volunteers for identifying a suspected impaired driver. Police said a recent incident highlights the valuable support volunteers provide as an “extra set of eyes and ears in the community” for police. On Jan. 17, at approximately 8:30 p.m., police received a report of a three-vehicle collision on […]

Rentals – be they short- and/or long-term – have caught the attention of a Vernon councillor. Kari Gares put forth a pair of motions that – with council’s unanimous blessing (though councillors Brian Quiring and Kelly Fehr were absent from the regular meeting Monday, Jan. 26) – will make their way in the spring to

An unsettling act of sexual assault alleged against horses by a strange man has left the owner, and broader community, shaken. Abigail Equestrian, a professional training facility on L&A Road in the BX, says an unknown man trespassed early Saturday, Jan. 24. “He was in with my horses in the middle of the night and

Surrey Memorial Hospital is one step closer to providing robotic-assisted surgery with the arrival of the da Vinci Xi Robotic Surgery system. It is expected to be used in surgeries in the spring. “With the aid of the da Vinci Xi system, we can expand minimally invasive thoracic and foregut surgery, and we can do