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A St. Joseph’s Mission residential school survivor hopes to celebrate a historic step in education and reconciliation with upcoming high school graduates across the province this spring. Phyllis Webstad helped inspire a national movement nearly 13 years ago when she shared her story in Williams Lake of her shiny orange shirt purchased by her grandmother […]

The queens of the floor put on a powerful performance in Vernon. RISE Gymnastics Academy hosted the annual Queen of Hearts rhythmic gymnastics competition Jan. 23 to 25 at the Vernon Recreation Complex, a competition that brought 175 athletes from 10 clubs around the province to the North Okanagan. “Hosting an event of this scale

The Association for Mineral Exploration (AME) is welcoming the Government of British Columbia’s announcement of fixed permitting timelines and $3 million in new spending for mineral exploration. The announcements were made during the AME Roundup 2026 in Vancouver last month. “AME has been calling on the government to allocate more capacity funding for permitting and

Enbridge’s Sunrise Expansion Program has cleared the final regulatory hurdle pending federal approval. On Jan. 30, 2026, the Canadian Energy Regulator (CER) recommended the approval of the project, which will see the Westcoast Pipeline system be expanded across B.C. In a release, the CER said the project is in the public interest, and it recommends

Olivia and Mike McInroy just want to get back to normal life. For that to happen, the Vernon husband and wife in their early 30s need outside help. Mike was born without a kidney, and for most of his life, that birth defect wasn’t much of an issue. That’s changed over the last three to