Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna
Okanagan curlers to represent B.C. at national events
Jeff Richard’s team won the 2022 B.C. Men’s Curling Championship at the Kamloops Curling Club. Richard of Kelowna, the third, joined with skip Brent Pierce (Royal City Curling Club), Jared...
Jan 10, 2022
Garage and house damaged in fire
A West Kelowna home was damaged by a fire Sunday morning. West Kelowna Fire Rescue responded to reports of a vehicle on fire with extensions to a structure in the 3400 block of Rosedale Place.around 1...
Jan 09, 2022
UPDATE: Multi-vehicle crash on Trans Canada Highway claims man’s life
UPDATE: 8:30 p.m. Highway 1 has reopened between Salmon Arm and Sicamous. CLEAR – #BCHwy1 – The highway is open at Bernie Rd between #SalmonArm and #Sicamous due to an earlier vehicle inci...
Jan 09, 2022
Appointments needed at COVID-19 testing sites
Residents are advised that COVID-19 rapid antigen tests are temporarily unavailable at the Interior Health Community Collection Centres in Kelowna and West Kelowna. COVID-19 testing by appointment con...
Jan 08, 2022
Interior’s active and new COVID-19 cases both rising
British Columbia is ending the first work week of 2022 with 3,144 new COVID-19 cases. That’s down from the 3,233 on Thursday. #CovidBC update: 3,144 new cases since we last reported, for a total...
Jan 07, 2022
B.C. students to return to class Monday under new safety measures
Students will be returning to class next week, though with new COVID-19 safety measures in place. Education Minister Jennifer Whiteside said the province has worked with the Education Steering Commiss...
Jan 07, 2022
Suspicious structure fire in Kelowna
A late-night callout of the Kelowna Fire Department led to significant damage to a boarded up, abandoned duplex. The calls came in at around 11:00 p.m. about smoke coming from the structure in the 180...
Jan 07, 2022
Defiant gym owner will not shut down
A West Kelowna gym owner openly and enthusiastically defying a public health order to close his workout facility was handed a fine Thursday. According to video posted to social media accounts, Iron En...
Jan 06, 2022
Interior surpasses 2,800 active COVID 19 cases
With 408 new COVID-19 cases identified in the Interior Thursday, the active case count for the region rose to 2,807. The new cases were part of 3,223 recorded across B.C., bringing the provincial acti...
Jan 06, 2022
Dog day for crook on Christmas
Crime does not take a day off, even on Christmas. And sometimes that can bite. Kelowna RCMP responded to a report that a male suspect had broken into a business on Neave Court on the morning of Dec. 2...
Jan 06, 2022