Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

Today is RCMP Appreciation Day in B.C., an event that got its start in Vernon. The day was officially proclaimed by the province on Feb. 1, 2020 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Mou...

Salmon Arm RCMP is asking the public to be on the lookout for a wanted man and his two daughters. Forty-year old Caleb Gerbrandt along with his daughters Eliyah (14) and Avery (13), went missing from ...

The Regional District of Central Okanagan (RDCO) wants to hear feedback on governance and service delivery from residents in the Central Okanagan West Electoral Area. The RDCO is looking for seven to ...

UPDATE: 10:00 a.m. Feb. 2 Erin O’ Toole is out as Conservative leader after a vote by party caucus members. Reports say 73 of 119 Tory MPs, or 61 per cent, voted to remove O’ Toole who had...

British Columbia had 4,075 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend with 1,182 of those in Interior Health. The new provincial infections included 1,725 on Saturday, 1,293 on Sunday and 1,057 today. Ninete...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tested positive for COVID-19, days after revealing he was isolating after one of his three children contracted the virus. “I'm feeling fine - and I'll ...

OTTAWA - Many of the horn-honking demonstrators who brought Ottawa to a near standstill showed no signs of budging Sunday as parliamentarians, businesses and school administrators were left wondering ...

A new leader will be chosen by British Columbia’s Liberals on Saturday after a months-long campaign that often focused on renewal and a new course for a party that has lost successive elections ...

Some protesters jumped on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and others fastened an inverted Canadian flag to a statue of Terry Fox as they decried vaccine mandates in the nation’s capital on Satur...

Costco will open its new Kelowna store next month. Members were sent an email this week saying the new larger warehouse on Baron Road will start welcoming customers on Feb. 17, a day after the current...