Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

A man got trapped on the wrong side of the fast-flowing KLO Creek Sunday and the Kelowna Fire Department’s Swift Water Rescue Team had to retrieve him, along with an RCMP officer and his police ...

UPDATE: 12:00 p.m. June 6, 2022 RCMP are not releasing any further details at this time on a fatal shooting incident in Vernon on Friday night. One resident estimated up to six shots were fired as a 3...

The City of West Kelowna has downgraded a Boil Water Notice to a Water Quality Advisory for the entire Lakeview-Rose Valley Water Service Area. View the city’s water quality map to confirm if yo...

Interior Health has issued a Community Drug Warning for Vernon and Kelowna. The June 3 warning states that methamphetamines containing benzodiazepines is being sold in the cities. IH also states the c...

Findings from a new report show that a vast majority of Canadian health care workers reported they felt more stressed at work, and even more stated their jobs were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. S...

The June wildfire seasonal update shows that the Okanagan is among the most at-risk region in the province. Matt MacDonald, lead forecaster from the B.C. Wildfire Service, stated that most of the prov...

The B.C. Government is nearly doubling its investment to protect communities from wildfires this summer. Forests Minister Katrine Conroy announced Friday that the province is investing as much as $90 ...

The North, Central and South Okanagan have all been placed under a severe thunderstorm watch. Environment Canada issued the advisory just before 10 a.m. today, warning that conditions are favourable f...

Greater Vernon had 12 confirmed Covid-19 cases last week, down from the 32 cases the week before. Armstrong-Spallumcheen had no new cases (4 in week previous), Enderby had 3 (0), Salmon Arm 10, and th...

Interior Health is seeing COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths linked to the virus on the decline. The weekly report from the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) showed there we...