Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

Environment Canada has expanded a special weather statement issued Friday morning to include the Coquihalla. The weather agency said 15 to 20 centimetres is expected to fall on the Coquihalla’s ...

RCMP are calling it “a step too far.” Officers are investigating a disruption that occurred at the Cenotaph in Kelowna’s City Park on Remembrance Day. RCMP officers responded to a re...

It will be another quiet Remembrance Day in many Canadian communities today, with the country still trying to get control of COVID-19 cases. Vernon will be holding a ceremony at the Cenotaph on 31st A...

Interior Health’s COVID-19 death toll is now 281, as one death linked to the virus was confirmed in the region Wednesday. The fatality was one of 11 across B.C., raising the provincial total to ...

A Do Not Consume Notice originally issued for the Killiney Beach water system on Sept. 2 has been rescinded. The Regional District of Central Okanagan lifted the notice following discussions with Inte...

RCMP arrested a man accused of stealing poppy donation boxes from two different banks on Ellis Street over two days this week. In the second incident, police say the same suspect entered the bank on N...

Police are looking for two men who robbed a teenager on the Rail Trail in Kelowna. Mounties say a 17-year-old male was riding his bicycle on the Rail Trail, east of Dilworth Road near the pedestrian b...

Over the course of the past four years, over 1.1 billion trees have been planted in British Columbia, including 301 million in 2021. The tree planting efforts are part of a science-based reforestation...

Kelowna RCMP are looking for a man and woman after an armed robbery of a cannabis store on Lawrence Avenue Monday night just before 11. Officers and a police dog searched the area, but were unable to ...

B.C. had 500 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, along with five more deaths, pushing the province’s death toll to 2,223. There are 4,301 active cases across the province, with 426 people in hospi...