Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

Plans have been announced for new Centre for Food, Wine and Tourism at the Kelowna campus of Okanagan College. The $48.8 million facility will focus on addressing the labour shortage in food and touri...

RCMP say they have identified a suspect group but have not yet made any arrests in the investigation of an assault of an international student in Kelowna. Police received a report a man had been assau...

Though the temperatures have been rising and the sun has been shining, highway conditions remain risky on B.C. Highways. The Road Safety at Work advocacy group, which runs the Shift Into Winter campai...

Kelowna city council has endorsed its priorities for the next four years which include six priority areas and 22 actions to increase citizens' quality of life. The priorities include strategies to dea...

The Wilson’s Landing Fire Hall is looking for new recruits to staff up the hall for the coming fire season. The Regional District of Central Okanagan says anyone living along Westside Road betwe...

The Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA) is supporting the launch of the Community Well-being Survey on the International Day of Happiness, March 20. The survey is being conducted in collabora...

Police are investigating a group assault at a Kelowna bus stop. RCMP received a report a man had been assaulted at Highway 97 N near McCurdy Road at the bus stop around 10:30 p.m. on Friday, March 17....

RCMP in Kelowna got reacquainted with a individual who is well known to the police. The RCMP’s Proactive Enforcement Unit (PEU) located a stolen GMC Sierra in the 200 block of Hwy 33 East in Kel...

The 2022-23 Jim Hughson Award for BC Hockey League Broadcaster of the Year has been awarded to former Wenatchee Wild play-by-play man Arch Ecker. Ecker, who had been in the booth with the Wild since 2...

The Kelowna Rockets will look bit different when they hit the ice against the Kamloops Blazers Saturday night at Prospera Place. The WHL team will be wearing SpongeBob Square Pants jerseys to celebrat...