Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

David Eby will reportedly announce he will be running for the BC NDP leadership later today. Global says the province’s attorney general will make the announcement at an event in his riding of V...

A former Vernon Lakers defenceman has been honoured by the BC Hockey League. As part of a new initiative to update its year-end awards, the league's Top Defenceman Award will now be known as the Campb...

A well-known Canadian band and a rising star in country music will be among the 16 bands entertaining the fans at the first annual Monashee Music Festival in Sicamous this weekend. The event, which wi...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the Central Okanagan Monday for what turned out to be mostly a series of photo-ops at three locations. Trudeau visited a child care facility in Lake Country, then...

Sunday night's (July 17) thunderstorm through the Kamloops Fire Centre may have started six new wildfires. Aydan Coray, Fire Information Officer for the B.C. Wildfire Service, says while a lightning s...

Motorists are welcoming slightly lower gas prices, with most stations in Vernon now selling regular unleaded for under $2 a litre. Gasoline prices in Canada starting dropping last week after a decreas...

Surgical capacity is being increased in the Interior with the addition of five new operating rooms. Two of the new ORs will be at Kelowna General Hospital and three will be at Royal Inland Hospital in...

A Kelowna city councillor has launched his bid for re-election. Loyal Wooldridge says his campaign, which he calls Encourage Kelowna 2022, focuses on the community priorities: safety, housing, transpo...

The B.C. Coroners Service is investigating a fatal incident on a local lake. RCMP say on Saturday, July 16 at about 7:30 p.m., officers from Lake Country and Kelowna responded to a 911 report of a dro...

An injured cyclist was rescued by search teams in the Myra Canyon area east of Kelowna. Central Okanagan Search and Rescue (COSAR) and the Kelowna Fire Department responded to the incident Saturday ev...