Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

British Columbia’s provincial health officer says she doesn’t believe there’s a need for the “heavy hand” of a mask mandate. Dr. Bonnie Henry says while influenza cases a...

RCMP in Kelowna have released a photo of a person of interest along with a vehicle that may be associated with an investigation into the grandparent scam. Grandparent scams (also called grandchild sca...

A Kelowna-based medical research clinic is seeking people to be part of an influenza vaccine trial. Okanagan Clinical Trials is conducting a study to further establish the safety and efficacy of an in...

British Columbia Liberal Party members have voted to change the party’s name to BC United. Leader Kevin Falcon says 80 per cent of the voters who cast a ballot were in favour of the name change,...

The province will be conducting a test of B.C.’s emergency alerting system Wednesday afternoon (Nov. 16). Emergency Management BC says the test will be sent to wireless devices and broadcast on ...

A proposal for a new firehall on Glenmore Road in Kelowna will be the subject of a public hearing Nov. 29. The land, between Stephens Coyote Ridge Regional Park and the North Glenmore Dog Park, requir...

UPDATE: 3:30 p.m. The mayor of Merritt said a barrage of gunfire at three separate locations in the community early this morning is concerning even though no one was hit. Mike Goetz says he has been t...

Health Canada officials say more doses of children’s painkillers and fever medication will be available soon but it won’t say how many or where exactly they’ll be sent. Senior offici...

A Kelowna RCMP officer who pleaded guilty to assaulting a UBC-Okanagan nursing student during a wellness check in 2020 will be sentenced May 29. Constable Lacy Browning pleaded guilty to one count of ...

The Kelowna Chamber has named Brea Lake as its "Business Leader of the Year" for 2022. Lake, the CEO of Accelerate Okanagan (AO) since 2019, has championed the growth of the local technology industry ...