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Ask Vernon high school football coaches Sean Smith and Mike Scheller to talk about their players, and they’ll respond with: “How much time do you have?” Smith, from Vernon Secondary, and Scheller, of the crosstown Fulton Maroons, continue to develop quality players year after year after year. That’s evidenced in 2025 by having four players […]

Canadians with celiac disease are looking for a little financial relief from the government, in the form of an e-petition. I don’t usually sign petitions, as a member of the press. But since I was diagnosed with celiac disease more than 20 years ago, I have spent likely a few thousand dollars more for my

The Okanagan Humane Society (OHS) has taken 21 cats into its care, after their previous caretaker left them behind when they moved from their Cariboo property. “We recently received a call from a woman in Lone Butte requesting support,” said Romany Runnalls, executive director of OHS. “Her neighbour had moved and left behind twenty-one cats

There were many names on the memorial ornament Langley City Councillor Rosemary Wallace made for National Grief and Bereavement Day at Langley’s Derek Doubleday Arboretum on Tuesday. “It’s a beautiful event to remember people that you’ve lost but it also brings up a lot of emotions,” Walllace said. “I lost my mom when she was

The death of a 17-year-old boy in Kitimat has prompted Skeena MLA Claire Rattée to call for an independent review and the immediate activation of a long-awaited CT scanner at Kitimat General Hospital, saying the tragedy highlights gaps in emergency diagnostic care in the region. “A mother lost her son because the system failed him