Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna
Residential market ends year with sales decline
Residential real estate sales concluded 2022 with softened sales activity for the month of December. The Association of Interior Realtors said a total of 572 residential unit sales were recorded acros...
Jan 06, 2023
Province opens emergency centres to manage busy respiratory illness season
British Columbia’s Health Ministry will be activating emergency operation centres in health authorities next week to manage patient care needs during the respiratory illness season. The ministry...
Jan 06, 2023
COVID-19 cases climb in the Interior
The Interior has seen an increase in COVID-19 cases on a weekly basis. The B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) reported a total of 126 confirmed cases of the virus in the region between December 2...
Jan 06, 2023
Local unemployment rate down in December
The economic region that includes Vernon and the North Okanagan saw the local unemployment rate decline on a monthly basis. Statistics Canada reports the unadjusted unemployment rate for the Thompson-...
Jan 06, 2023
Province adds more items to B.C.’s recycling system
British Columbia residents can now recycle a wider array of single-use plastic items and packaging products in their residential blue box or at participating recycling depots. These items include prod...
Jan 06, 2023
Rockets forwards bring home medals fro world juniors
Kelowna Rockets captain Colton Dach will be leaving the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship with a gold medal, following Canada's 3-2 overtime win over Czechia Thursday in Halifax, N.S. Dach was held ...
Jan 06, 2023
OT thriller: Canada beats Czechia for 20th world junior gold
Canada got the revenge it desperately wanted - and is golden again at the world junior hockey championship. Dylan Guenther scored his second goal of the night at 6:22 of overtime in Halifax as the tou...
Jan 05, 2023
City sued over icy fall
A Kelowna woman is suing the City of Kelowna and Tourism Kelowna over a slip and fall at the visitor centre. The lawsuit, filed in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday, alleges Christina Nymark was walking n...
Jan 05, 2023
RCMP make arrest after trees cut down in park
Two men are facing theft charges after allegedly cutting down trees in a Lake Country park. A police officer was conducting patrols in the area of Jack Seaton Park in Lake Country on the morning of Ja...
Jan 05, 2023
B.C. boosts coverage of four drugs
British Columbia has expanded PharmaCare coverage of four drugs used to treat diabetes, heart failure and blood clots, including one medication the health minister says has been promoted as a weight-l...
Jan 05, 2023