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When Vernon-North Okanagan RCMP Supt. Shawna Baher (right) is out operating a squeegee at a community fundraiser, maybe it’s time there was an RCMP Appreciation Day. A Vernon group thinks so and has launched a petition campaign to have Feb. 1 declared as RCMP Appreciation Day provincewide. (Roger Knox/Morning Star)

B.C.-based RCMP Appreciation Day petition gathering steam

Vernon group wants Feb. 1 declared RCMP Appreciation Day in B.C.

When Vernon-North Okanagan RCMP Supt. Shawna Baher (right) is out operating a squeegee at a community fundraiser, maybe it’s time there was an RCMP Appreciation Day. A Vernon group thinks so and has launched a petition campaign to have Feb. 1 declared as RCMP Appreciation Day provincewide. (Roger Knox/Morning Star)
Quebec MP and former Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Maxime Bernier launched a new political party Friday, The People’s Party of Canada. The organization is holding an informational meeting for the party Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Vernon’s Village Green Hotel. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)

Vernon hosts informational meeting on Canada’s newest political party

The People’s Party of Canada launched Friday; info meeting Monday, 6:30 p.m., Village Green Hotel

Quebec MP and former Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Maxime Bernier launched a new political party Friday, The People’s Party of Canada. The organization is holding an informational meeting for the party Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Vernon’s Village Green Hotel. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
BC Hockey League’s Vernon Vipers sold

BC Hockey League’s Vernon Vipers sold

Franchised owned by Wray family for 26 years sold to Tom and John Glen

BC Hockey League’s Vernon Vipers sold
B.C. Hockey League’s Vernon Vipers sold

B.C. Hockey League’s Vernon Vipers sold

Franchise owned by Wray family for 26 years sold to Prairie brothers Tom and John Glen

B.C. Hockey League’s Vernon Vipers sold
Elena Gaskell (Freestyle Canada photo)

B.C. skier soars to World Cup gold

Elena Gaskell of Vernon wins slopestyle event in New Zealand; Yuki Tsubota of Whistler third

Elena Gaskell (Freestyle Canada photo)
Curl BC announces host cities for the 2018-19 provincial championships. (Black Press file photo)

Curl BC announces host cities for provincial finals

Ten BC curling championships will be contested in seven different provincial zones

Curl BC announces host cities for the 2018-19 provincial championships. (Black Press file photo)
Scott Anderson.

BC Conservatives want taxes to pay for addictions treatment program

Interim leader Scott Anderson of Vernon said what’s being done now is not working

Scott Anderson.
Update: Okanagan gas outlet with lowest price in B.C.

Update: Okanagan gas outlet with lowest price in B.C.

Two Vernon outlets have reduced price Tuesday morning to as low as $1.15.9

Update: Okanagan gas outlet with lowest price in B.C.
Civil liberties group upset with B.C. city’s shopping cart ban proposal

Civil liberties group upset with B.C. city’s shopping cart ban proposal

Provincial body fires off letter to Vernon council

Civil liberties group upset with B.C. city’s shopping cart ban proposal
Okanagan killer denied absolute discharge by B.C. Court of Appeal

Okanagan killer denied absolute discharge by B.C. Court of Appeal

Vernon’s Kenneth Scott Barter remains “significant threat to public”: decision

Okanagan killer denied absolute discharge by B.C. Court of Appeal
White Spot records B.C. Pirate Pak record day

White Spot records B.C. Pirate Pak record day

Popular B.C.-Alberta event raises more than $116,000 to send kids and adults to Zajac Ranch

White Spot records B.C. Pirate Pak record day
B.C. gangster charged after man allegedly beaten with a golf club

B.C. gangster charged after man allegedly beaten with a golf club

Langley man facing aggravated assault charge after incident allegedly involved golf club and machete

B.C. gangster charged after man allegedly beaten with a golf club
B.C. Conservatives want a full overhaul of ICBC

B.C. Conservatives want a full overhaul of ICBC

Their goal is to reduce insurance rates for B.C. drivers.

B.C. Conservatives want a full overhaul of ICBC
Man falls 150 feet while reaching for his dropped phone at B.C. waterfall

Man falls 150 feet while reaching for his dropped phone at B.C. waterfall

Man fell reaching for dropped phone, but luckily sustained only minor injuries

Man falls 150 feet while reaching for his dropped phone at B.C. waterfall
Graham Turnbull, play-by-play voice of the Vernon Vipers, has been named the B.C. Hockey League’s Broadcaster of the Year. (Morning Star file photo)

BC Hockey League names Vernon Vipers voice top broadcaster

Graham Turnbull selected BCHL broadcaster of the year

Graham Turnbull, play-by-play voice of the Vernon Vipers, has been named the B.C. Hockey League’s Broadcaster of the Year. (Morning Star file photo)
For-profit ridesharing legislation long overdue: BC Conservatives

For-profit ridesharing legislation long overdue: BC Conservatives

Interim party leader Scott Anderson said the provincial government should step out of the way

For-profit ridesharing legislation long overdue: BC Conservatives
Man takes off with eggs, meat out B.C. family farm’s fridge run on honour system

Man takes off with eggs, meat out B.C. family farm’s fridge run on honour system

Honour system fridge dishonoured and now RCMP are on the hunt for suspect

Man takes off with eggs, meat out B.C. family farm’s fridge run on honour system
B.C. Conservatives urge constructive solutions in wake of Greyhound pullout

B.C. Conservatives urge constructive solutions in wake of Greyhound pullout

Scott Anderson blasts NDP and Liberals for not doing enough to address bus cuts

B.C. Conservatives urge constructive solutions in wake of Greyhound pullout
Nicolas Cage was in Vernon Thursday filming A Score to Settle at All Saints’ Anglican Church, which drew a large crowd of fans watching from across the street at Beairsto Elementay. (Tobias Frederiksen/Morning Star)

Nicolas Cage films in B.C. town

Hollywood actor filming A Score to Settle in North Okanagan

Nicolas Cage was in Vernon Thursday filming A Score to Settle at All Saints’ Anglican Church, which drew a large crowd of fans watching from across the street at Beairsto Elementay. (Tobias Frederiksen/Morning Star)
Abby McLuskey and Noble-T-Remington take part in the BC 4HOkanagan Stock Show at the Armstrong IPE fairgrounds last weekend which saw 48 kids from five 4H horse clubs wrap up their week with a horse show followed by an awards banquet and dance. Youth competed in jumping, reining, trail, equitation and pleasure. (Submitted Photo)

Armstrong hosts B.C. 4H riders

PHOTOS: Horse trails at the Okanagan Stock Show

Abby McLuskey and Noble-T-Remington take part in the BC 4HOkanagan Stock Show at the Armstrong IPE fairgrounds last weekend which saw 48 kids from five 4H horse clubs wrap up their week with a horse show followed by an awards banquet and dance. Youth competed in jumping, reining, trail, equitation and pleasure. (Submitted Photo)
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