Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

A GoFundMe is underway to help the family of a Vernon doctor who is missing and presumed drowned in the Thompson River in Kamloops. The website said Dr. Michael Mthandazo was in Kamloops July 30 for a...

Impaired driving is the suspected cause of a crash south of Vernon last Friday (Aug. 5) that killed two people. Police say a southbound pickup truck, described by police as a red GMC, entered the onco...

The BC Wildfire Service says planned ignitions are scheduled to enclose a fire burning in the southern Okanagan. Information officer Mikhail Elsay says the controlled burn will increase the perimeter ...

The RCMP is investigating after two bodies were found inside the remains of a burned vehicle on Garnet Valley Road, outside of Summerland. Summerland RCMP were alerted to the bodies on Saturday, Aug. ...

Tanner Howe and Brayden Yager both scored goals, while Scott Ratzlaff made 25 saves as Canada captured the gold medal at the 2022 Hlinka Gretzky Cup with a 4-1 victory over Sweden in Red Deer Alta. Th...

KEREMEOS, B.C. - A wildfire on the fringes of British Columbia’s southern Okanagan has grown. The BC Wildfire Service says the blaze, which is about 21 kilometres southwest of Penticton, is now ...

RCMP in Kelowna are hoping some surveillance images can help lead them to a shooting suspect. Shots were fired at the Shell gas station at around 9:30 p.m. at 1850 KLA Road in Kelown on Tuesday, Aug. ...

The Keremeos Creek wildfire, southwest of Penticton, is now estimated at 5,903 hectares, up about 1,600 from the last mapping on Wednesday. While activity has been relatively quiet, strong winds Thurs...

The benchmark prices for all types of homes in the Okanagan keep going up, with condos in Vernon leading the surge. The Association of Interior Realtors said 18 of those units sold in July in the Nort...

The second quarter of 2022 saw the B.C. NDP raise more than nearly all other parties combined. Elections B.C. said the New Democratic Party collected $988,781 in political contributions from April 1 t...