Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

A RCMP officer on medical leave from the force is using music to get through his mental health struggles. Vernon resident Jonathan Williams will be playing guitar and singing for the Kelowna group NFA...

The federal government is providing funding to keep young people in the Okanagan from getting involved with criminal activity. The B.C. Interior will get $6.9 million over the next four years to provi...

A traffic stop in Kelowna escalated to a foot pursuit, arrest and seizure of drugs. Kelowna RCMP’s Community Safety Unit was on patrol near Highway 97 and Cooper Road at approximately 3:40 p.m. ...

Central Okanagan Search and Rescue called in a helicopter on Monday to help with an injured snowmobiler in the Greystokes area east of Kelowna. The chopper brought in a medical team but had to leave w...

The RCMP’s bomb had to be called in to deal with items found in a home in West Kelowna. West Kelowna Mounties attended a residence on Churchill Road Monday night (March 13) in response to a man ...

If you had a high-end mixing board stolen in the last while, you might want to contact the Kelowna RCMP. On September 17, 2022 while investigating a break and enter at a downtown Kelowna business, a P...

It’s being called the largest and most significant drug and gun seizure in recent memory for the Vernon North Okanagan RCMP. A drug trafficking investigation resulted in five people being arrest...

B.C. government agencies are getting more resources to deal with repeat violent offenders. The province has announced the creation of dedicated police-prosecutor-probation officer teams that will focu...

The British Columbia Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for a Kelowna man convicted of second-degree murder for bludgeoning another man with a hammer. Steven Pirko was convicted for the 2014 atta...

Crews will start sweeping the winter dirt off Kelowna roads this week. The city says the full street sweeping program will begin Wednesday, March 15. "We've got seven large road sweepers, seven munici...