Some would call it a step backwards. Kyle Murphy and Malcolm Lyles choose to look at it as a new opportunity.

Vernon’s Murray Bennetto capped a good run at the Canadian National Senior Tennis Championships in Vancouver last week.

At just 15, Ryan Messer of the VSS Panthers is already a cover boy.

A Vernon youth was among the a trio of Team B.C. boats that stormed the podium at the National Sea Cadet Regatta recently in Kingston, Ont.

KELOWNA – Norway and Slovenia aren’t exactly the hotbeds of European hockey.

Jordan Young never had to travel far to get to school.

There will be a Beast let loose at the Vernon Recreation Centre auditorium Saturday, Sept. 11.

Vernon's Aaron Heidt has won prestigious trail runs like the North Shore Knee Knacker and the Grouse Grind.

The European duo, both of whom are fluent in English, arrived in Kelowna last week, several days ahead of main training camp to get acclimatized to their new team and new surroundings.

The Vernon Vipers have 10 days and two exhibition games to get down to a 23-man squad.

The Kindale Developmental Association has left its mark during the 111th Interior Provincial Exhibition.

Lumby area businesses will have a chance to get together today.

The greening of the IPE project takes the fair back to its roots more than a century ago when the reusing of food waste products was taken for granted.

A Vernon resort is officially joining forces with a Kelowna winery.

Kelowna International Airport is already thinking winter — winter destinations, that is.

A 20-year-old Vernon woman is making concrete decision about her future, thanks to enrolment last year in Okanagan College’s Gateway to the Building Trades for Women program.

Options to sell your gold online, at in-home gold parties, or through local jewelers are gaining in popularity, and the Better Business Bureau would like consumers to think before they try to cash in on the gold rush.

The government has just announced that $7 million will go to the B.C. Arts Council from the 2010 Sports and Arts Legacy fund.

Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers are each legends in their own right. Both have enjoyed singing and acting careers that have spanned approximately five decades.

Montreal singer/songwriter, NEeMA, possesses a self-assured, candid delivery that is part conversation and part statement. 

Vernon-raised writer Laisha Rosnau has been long-listed for the 2010 ReLit Award for her latest book of poems, Lousy Explorers.

One more exorcism movie, and I’m gonna spew a little pea soup of my own.

Two-time Juno nominees The Creaking Tree String Quartet are coming to celebrate their new record with audiences across B.C.

It may be the biggest juried annual art show in B.C., but don’t be intimidated.

KELOWNA — One of the world’s leading pre-school entertainers The Wiggles are back in Canada with an anticipated family event. And this time they are coming closer to home when their brand new live tour, The Wiggly Circus, comes to Prospera

The memorabilia from a former fashion model’s career and the remnants of an old grocery store are part of two retro-themed exhibitions opening at Gallery Vertigo Sept. 9.

Babies wearing purple hats this winter will be sending an important message before they can even talk — a reminder that babies must never be shaken.

Dear Annie: My boyfriend and I met each other at a military school. A month later, we moved in together. My 12-year-old daughter and I moved 900 miles to be with him. Six weeks later, he asked me to marry him.

Everything seems dark and hopeless — there is too much loss, pain and confusion. No one seems to care. Suicide seems to be the only thing way out.

A new resource book for local foods, RealFOOD, RealHEALTH, makes its debut at the Interior Provincial Exhibition.

Bring along your pooch and join other dog lovers at BX Ranch Park for a day of family fun at the BC SPCA Paws for a Cause walk Sept. 12.

Social thinking comes naturally for most children but for those with Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), non-verbal learning difficulties, high functioning autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, it can be delayed or difficult.

There are a few theories by some old timers that mountain ash trees predict the kind of winter we will have.

Training on a tall ship that sailed the Atlantic and Mediterranean taught Patricia A. Donahue the ways of the sea — working as nurse, teacher and counselor, and growing up in a big family in a small town taught her about people living their lives t