Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

An Okanagan woman has issued a challenge to celebrate her birthday this year. Angie Clowry, originally from Lumby who now resides in Kelowna, is asking friends and family who can, to donate blood or p...

Gas prices jumped overnight in some Canadian cities by as much as 20 cents with refinery issues being cited as the reason. The price at the pump hit 239.9 cents per litre in Metro Vancouver, breaking ...

The B.C. government is rolling out free flu shots and COVID-19 vaccines ahead of what is expected to be a busy respiratory illness season. The province launched it’s COVID-19 fall booster campai...

RCMP officers helped to rescue a teenager who got stranded on a Kelowna mountain. RCMP received a report that an 18-year-old woman had climbed a guard rail and then slid down the side of Dilworth Moun...

Unionized transit workers in the Central Okanagan plan to walk off the job next week to back their demands for a better contract offer from their employer. Members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Loc...

A traffic stop led to police seizing several bags of drugs in Kelowna. An officer on patrol the night of Sept. 27 noticed a vehicle parked at an angle off the road near an authorized camp for unhoused...

VICTORIA - British Columbia health officials are preparing for a possible surge of influenza infections at the same time as COVID-19 strikes this fall. The province is offering free flu shots beginnin...

Premier John Horgan is having to make some changes to his cabinet after Melanie Mark resigned as Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport. Horgan said Mark is leaving the post to go on medical lea...

People across the province continue to lose family members or friends to drug overdoses according to the latest data provided by the B.C. Coroners Service. Vernon saw a decline in suspected toxic drug...

As October approaches, the number of health facilities in the Interior experiencing respiratory virus outbreaks is once again on the rise. As of Wednesday morning (Sept. 28), the Interior Health websi...