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Vernon Winter Carnival Society director Boris Ivanoff, left, dressed as Officer Ponch from the hit TV series CHiPs, holds the boom microphone for guest speaker Curt Reimer of event sponsor Valley First while Carnival executive director Vicki Proulx – Leela from Futurama – looks on during the Media Launch for the 63rd Carnival Wednesday, Jan. 11, at the Best Western Premier Hotel. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
Countdown to Vernon Winter Carnival kicks off
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6 kinds of weather you probably didn’t know about 5 years ago
A dog sits on top of its shelter at a dog yard in Bolterdalen, Norway, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. The yard is located half a dozen miles from the main village in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago so close to the North Pole that winter is shrouded in uninterrupted darkness. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
VIDEO: In Norway, sled dogs train and play in warming Arctic
West Kelowna’s Grizzli Winery is hosting ice wine tours from January to March 2023. (Brittany Webster/West K News)
Winter tours on at West Kelowna winery
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaks during the North America Summit, at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
VIDEO: Trudeau sidesteps U.S. demands on Haiti as ‘Three Amigos’ summit wraps up
Ascalon Academy has started swordsmanship classes in Kelowna and Penticton for 2023. (Brittany Webster/Capital News)
En garde! Fight like medieval men with Ascalon Academy in Kelowna, Penticton
Ascalon Academy has started swordsmanship classes in Kelowna and Penticton for 2023. (Brittany Webster/Capital News)
VIDEO: En garde! Fight like medieval men with Ascalon Academy in the Okanagan
President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meet at the 10th North American Leaders’ Summit at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
VIDEO: Trudeau meets with continental business leaders at North American Leaders’ Summit
Four needles were stashed inside a hole in a play structure at Maven Lane and discovered by children at the daycare Jan. 6. (Maven Lane photos)
UPDATE: RCMP investigate after children poked by needles in Vernon playground
This photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the inside of the summit crater of the Kilauea Volcano on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has begun erupting less than one month after Kilauea and its larger neighbor Mauna Loa stopped releasing lava. (U.S. Geological Survey via AP)
VIDEO: Hawaii eruption not dangerous but offers spectacular sight
Vernon ultra athlete Shanda Hill and some of her lake-dipping friends cut a large smile into a huge chunk of ice on Coldstream’s Kalamalka Lake. Of course, the event wasn’t complete without a dip through the eyes. (Screen shot)
VIDEO: Okanagan athlete puts smile on (chunk of) ice
Maurizio Palmulli, also known as “Mister Ok”, of Italy, dives into the Tiber river from the 18 meter (59 feet) high Cavour Bridge to celebrate the New Year Day in Rome, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
The week in news photos from around the world
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Prince Harry’s book exposes grief, war, drugs, family rifts
Mexican Public Safety Secretary Rosa Icela Rodriguez, right, and Mexican Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval leave after a news conference announcing the arrest of Ovidio Guzman in Mexico City, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Mexican security forces captured Guzman, an alleged drug trafficker wanted by the United States and one of the sons of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Thursday in a pre-dawn operation outside Culiacan. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Eduardo Verdugo
Canadian government tells travellers in Mexico to shelter in place due to violence
Luc Tardif, IIHF President, answers questions from reporters during a press conference at the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship in Halifax on Thursday, January 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
IIHF president hopeful about Hockey Canada’s future with new board despite ‘damage’
Kelowna Fire Department on the ice at Kelowna Golf and Country Club for cold water training on Jan. 5, 2023. (Brittany Webster/Capital News)
Kelowna reporter takes the plunge with firefighters for cold water training
Children’s backpacks and shoes are seen at a CEFA (Core Education and Fine Arts) Early Learning daycare franchise, in Langley, B.C., on May 29, 2018. Families in Nunavut are now paying an average of $10 a day for child care, the first jurisdiction to achieve the goal under a Canada-wide plan. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
As parents celebrate lower child-care fees, will provinces keep up with demand?
Pope Francis touches the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI before it is carried away after a funeral mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Benedict died at 95 on Dec. 31 in the monastery on the Vatican grounds where he had spent nearly all of his decade in retirement. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Faithful mourn Benedict XVI at funeral presided over by pope
A confrontation between a Cannabis Cottage employee in Penticton and a woman who apparently stole an employee tip jar filled with an estimated hundreds of dollars. (Courtesy- Cannabis Cottage)
VIDEO: ‘Frustration’ felt after woman steals employee tip jar from Penticton cannabis shop
Katrina Hosley is covered in a crust of snow as she uses her snowblower for the fourth time in one morning during a snowstorm in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023.(Erin Woodiel/The Argus Leader via AP)
California braces for rain, winds, flooding amid emergency