Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

Hockey Canada has invited 37 Western Hockey League players to participate in Canada's national under-17 development camp, set to take place July 10-16 at the Markin MacPhail Centre in Calgary. In tota...

A woman who hit a diagonal culvert and fell while cycling on the Myra Canyon Trail on Wednesday was helped out of the area by Central Okanagan Search and Rescue (COSAR). Eight search team members were...

Chambers of commerce from Armstrong to Osoyoos will be featured in a new series of promotional videos. Seven of the business groups throughout the Okanagan have put together short videos highlighting ...

The Kelowna RCMP is asking anyone who may have been a witness to a serious motor vehicle collision to come forward. On May 22, 2022 at 9:15 p.m. RCMP attended the 1900-block of Enterprise Way for a tw...

Toxic street drugs claimed 161 lives in B.C. in April. In its monthly update, the B.C. Coroners Service said that equates to an average of just over five deaths per day. Vernon has had 11 drug-related...

UBC Okanagan's Class of 2022 is the largest group of graduates in the Kelowna campus’s history. Today and Friday (JUne 9-10), UBCO will confer more than 2,400 degrees in six different graduating...

RCMP have released a photo of a vehicle that investigators believe was involved in a fatal shooting in Vernon last week. A 38-year-old man was killed on Friday, June 3 in the parking lot of a condomin...

The BC Hockey League has announced the schedule for the 2022-23 regular season. The league's 61st season will begin on Friday, Sept. 23 and finish on Sunday, Mar. 26 and will once again consist of 54 ...

Pride Week 2022 in Kelowna culminates on Saturday with the Pride March and Festival. The event will start at Stuart Park (1430 Water St.) at 10 a.m. and leads to City Park. The Festival will run until...

A research study conducted in B.C. that distributed fentanyl test strips for take-home use has proved effective in checking the drug supply. The project was launched in partnership with Interior Healt...