Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

Police in Kelowna have been cracking down on high risk drivers. Since January 1st, the RCMP have issued over 350 tickets for several offences. Mounties said they issued 154 tickets were issued for spe...

Kelowna RCMP are investigating an early morning shooting. At approximately 3 a.m. Wednesday, Mar. 19, officers were dispatched to the area of Ellis St. and Leon Ave. for a possible firearm incident. M...

A warrant was not issued for the man accused in the helicopter crash east of Enderby nearly two years ago. The B.C. Prosecution Service said Vincent Porteous did not appear in Kelowna court as schedul...

The Minister of Forests is visiting the Okanagan to speak with people in the forestry sector and try to find solutions to issues they face stemming from tariff and duty threats from the United States....

The MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream is under fire after announcing she was leaving her party. Tara Armstrong announced on social media that she was leaving the Conservative Party of B.C. to si...

Some patients requiring hospital care in the Central Okanagan can now receive it at home. The Hospital at Home (HaH) program has launched from Kelowna General Hospital, making it the first such progra...

The busy spring break travel period is almost upon us with Kelowna International Airport (YLW) expecting more than 120,000 passengers to travel through the facility from March 13 - 30. It said passeng...

There was little change to the local snowpack through February of this year. The River Forecast Centre reported the Okanagan’s snowpack was at 82 per cent of normal as of March 1. While that was...

The economic region that includes the Okanagan saw unemployment rise last month. Statistics Canada said the unadjusted unemployment rate for the Thompson-Okanagan was 5.7 per cent in February. That wa...

A prescribed burn will take place near Jack Seaton Park in Lake Country this month. The B.C. Wildfire Service, in partnership with the Lake Country Fire Department, will do a prescribed burn covering ...