Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

Liquor-service premises can make some slight changes to their business model to reopen under COVID-19 restrictions. B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer said they have clarified a previous order tha...

Interior Health had the most new COVID-19 infections in B.C. for a second straight day with 370, down slightly from the 376 on Tuesday. Active cases in the region were at 7,191, a drop of 653. The pro...

The Okanagan Regional Library (ORL) is helping kids expand their skills in math, art, science and technology by offering more than just books. The Library of Things at ORL branches allows people to bo...

British Columbia is moving forward with mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for all health care professionals that will take effect on March 24. “It’s to ensure we have a consistent, supported sta...

RCMP are trying to find the owners of stolen goods that have been recovered from two sites in the Okanagan. An investigation on Jan. 27 where officers executed search warrants on properties in Lake Co...

The B.C. government’s speech from the throne left a local business group with more questions than answers. Members of the Greater Vernon Chamber of Commerce say they were left wondering what the...

The City of Vernon’s population has grown since the last census. Statistics Canada says the census data from 2021 put Vernon’s population at 44,519. That’s up 11 per cent from the 40...

British Columbia’s toxic drug supply crisis is showing no signs of slowing down. The B.C. Coroners Service said a record 2,224 people died after using toxic illicit drugs in 2021, stated a new p...

A Salmon Arm man who was on the lam with his two teenage daughters has been apprehended in Eastern Canada. Forty-year old Caleb Gerbrandt was arrested in Ontario Tuesday, Feb. 8. Gerbrandt had been on...

UPDATE: 5:00 a.m. Feb. 10 Eliot Grondin, a 20-year-old from Sainte-Marie, Quebec, won a silver medal for Canada in men’s snowboard cross in Beijing, finishing 0.2 seconds behind the winner Aless...