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Attendance may be down a bit, but festival chair Lody Kieken says the totals – 9,000 Friday, 10,000 Saturday and 9,000 Sunday – are similar to last year, at a time when other music festivals have reported drops in the neighbourhood of 15 to 20 per cent.

Ernie Arsenault knows not everyone appreciates his 35-foot-high lighted cross that shines on the Fly Hills – but he doesn’t know why someone would steal all the components.

Festival: Vendor asked to leave over not locally made products.

While the three-day festival played out in a laid-back groove, there were issues around security and first-aid, many of them fuelled by alcohol.

Pamela Jones: Family, friends remember the kind-hearted mother and former teacher.

B.C.'s high school grads were leaving millions in scholarship money on the table by not writing optional final exams, so the education ministry has changed the system to make sure the aid gets to students who do well on mandatory tests.

Feds scale back monitoring for Fukushima nuke fallout

With a whoop and a hearty arm pump, Rosa Guthrie celebrated the news she will continue to operate her taco stand out of Blackburn Park pending formal approval from city council.

Observer photographers James Murray and Lachlan Labere covered the festival, from the outreach events all through the weekend.

Three suspects in an alleged Vernon break-and-enter have a date with a judge.