Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

The BC Hockey League is starting a new program that will honour the men and women who officiate games. The league has announced a set of year-end awards for officials, starting in 2023-24. At the end ...

Some Good Samaritans came to the defence of a woman who got attacked for no apparent reason in downtown Kelowna. RCMP received an initial report of a dozen people beating up a man on Mill St at Queens...

A tentative deal has been reached between employers and workers in the strike that has halted shipments in and out of British Columbia ports for nearly two weeks. A statement from the B.C. Maritime Em...

A ceremony was held today (July 12) to mark the second anniversary of the fatal crane collapse in downtown Kelowna. Four construction workers and a man working in a nearby building were killed in the ...

Environment Canada is warning of a severe thunderstorm impacting travel on the highway between Kelowna and Merritt. The weather agency said a series of severe thunderstorms are moving into the area an...

Coldstream’s former chief administrative officer has gone south for his latest position in municipal government. Trevor Seibel was introduced as the City of West Kelowna’s new deputy CAO a...

The Road Safety at Work organization is urging drivers in the North Okanagan to be safe when on the road for business purposes. The road safety advocate said work-related crashes are the leading cause...

RCMP have stopped a scammer who has defrauded several businesses of their products. On July 5, Mounties in Kelowna received a report of a possible scam involving a person purchasing a large quantity o...

UPDATE: 7:40 a.m. July 11, 2023 A fire at the Glenmore Landfill in Kelowna is out, but it wasn’t a quick process. At around 7:30 p.m. Monday, July 10, the Kelowna Regional Dispatch Centre receiv...

UPDATE Drive BC says the Coquihalla Highway fully reopened near the Great Bear Snowshed around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. A multi-vehicle incident between Merritt and Hope closed the route to southbound traff...