Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

West Kelowna’s fire chief said the total number of homes damaged or destroyed in his community by the McDougall Creek wildfire is less than 90. Jason Brolund told Tuesday’s media update (A...

Kelowna Made, an all-ages community celebration scheduled for next week has been cancelled due to the local state of emergency and ongoing wildfire situation in the region. “While we are, of cou...

Travel and accommodation orders will remain in effect for the Thompson-Okanagan region to free up spaces for frontline responders and evacuees, and B.C.’s premier would like operators of private...

As of today, Monday, August 21, residential curbside collection of garbage and recycling will resume across the Central Okanagan for residents who are not on evacuation alert or order. At this time re...

Details about some of the property losses connected to the wildfires in the Central Okanagan were released at the Monday morning (Aug. 21) update in Kelowna. The other key focus was that efforts that ...

The North and Central Okanagan are experiencing some of the worst air quality in the province as of 1 p.m. Sunday (Aug. 20) The air quality health indexes in both areas was 10+ or very high, which was...

Lake Country Fire Chief Darren Lee was visibly moved at Sunday’s Central Okanagan fire update over the superhuman efforts being made by firefighters. “I just want to congratulate all our f...

West Kelowna fire chief Jason Brolund has requested and received approval for the deployment of Canada Task Force 1 to start dealing with the aftermath of the Central Okanagan fires. Canada Task Force...

Robert Pullen and his husband, Warren, got a knock on their door on Thursday night from a neighbour, and estimate they had about 10 minutes to get out the door. A fast-moving wildfire was approaching ...

The Lower East Adams Lake and the Bush Creek East wildfires have merged and will be referred to as the Bush Creek East fire creating a fire area of over 41,000 hectares “There are several hazard...