Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

Kelowna International Airport (YLW) is getting a cash injection from the federal government to support operations and maintenance work. YLW is receiving $3.2-million from the Regional Air Transportati...

A 24-year-old man was arrested in West Kelowna on the weekend after reports he had assaulted a woman and had been throwing rocks at cars near the entrance to a park on Gellatly Road. The man was taken...

An incident where a woman was injured while being arrested by police in Salmon Arm, is under investigation by B.C.’s police watchdog. RCMP were called to a residence in the 200-block of 27 Avenu...

Steve Fonyo, the former Vernon resident who lost his leg to cancer as a child and ran a marathon across Canada to raise millions for cancer research, has died. He was 56. Fonyo’s niece Melody Kr...

The B.C. government has announced plans to add 602 new nursing seats at post-secondary institutions in the province. The positions will be added to the approximately 2,000 seats currently in nursing p...

Police say a woman sprayed several people with bear spray during an attempted robbery at the Home Depot in Kelowna. Mounties were called to the store around 2:00 p.m. on Saturday (Feb. 19) after a fem...

Interior Health (IH) says it will phase-in services that were put on hold last month due to COVID-19. The agency made service adjustments in January “to preserve safe and reliable access to pati...

A T-bone collision in Sicamous Thursday (Feb. 17) claimed the lives of an Okanagan mother and child. RCMP say the crash took place just after 9:00 a.m. Thursday in the 1800-block of Trans Canada Highw...

The Interior had the second highest new COVID-19 cases in B.C. Thursday, Feb. 17. The B.C. Centre for Disease Control reported 191 new infections in the Interior (decrease of 86 from Wednesday), secon...

Normally this kind of anticipation is for Black Friday or Boxing Day, but it's fair to say there was a shopping frenzy Thursday morning for the opening of the new Costco Wholesale in Kelowna. Hundreds...