Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

For the first time since 1995, Kamloops will host Canada's national major junior hockey championship. Dan MacKenzie, president of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL), announced from Sandman Centre Friday...

The City of West Kelowna, in consultation with Interior Health, is upgrading an existing Water Quality Advisory to a Boil Water Notice, until further notice, for the entire Lakeview-Rose Valley Water ...

Users of the Mission Creek Greenway now have access to new trails as part of a park expansion. The completion of the project was officially celebrated by the Regional District of Central Okanagan toda...

More than 150 people will be selling goods at the Trunk Sale in Kelowna on Saturday, May 28. The garage sale-style event will see sellers park their vehicles and sell gently used items out of their tr...

The B.C. Government is taking action to end period poverty and remove stigmas associated with menstruation. The province is assembling a new Period Poverty Task Force, backed by $750,000 in funding, t...

Kelowna Regional RCMP is seeking information on an unoccupied boat found adrift on Wood Lake in Lake Country. The Lake Country RCMP responded to a report of the boat adrift approximately 60 feet from ...

Mounties are investigating a suspicious object located in West Kelowna this morning (May 26). RCMP responded to a report of the object on the shoulder of Bartley Road at 8:27 a.m. Officers attended th...

A search for a lost boy in Kelowna had police and search rescue volunteers involved in the hunt. Central Okanagan Search and Rescue (COSAR) was called out around 10:00 p.m. Wednesday (May 25) to look ...

RCMP is investigating a two-vehicle crash in the 3500-block of Glenmore Road North in Kelowna. The preliminary investigation indicates a grey Nissan Versa was travelling southbound on the road when it...

COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are dropping in the Interior and across B.C. The B.C. Centre for Disease Control’s (BCCDC) weekly report stated there were 281 cases of COVID-19 in th...