Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

Police from Kelowna, Penticton, the Emergency Response Team and a helicopter worked together Tuesday to stop a car that had been stolen in Osoyoos. It was spotted just outside Summerland and followed ...

The pitch for the Pint and Pie has been proclaimed provincially! A radio commercial produced for Pint & Pie Kitchen and Taphouse in Vernon has won a British Columbia Association of BroadcasterR...

Penticton has the highest living wage among the Okanagan communities at $18.55/hour. That amount represents the hourly wage that each of two working parents with two young children must make to meet t...

Interior Health’s COVID-19 death toll is now at 272 as another Interior resident passed away due to the virus on Wednesday. The death is one of six recorded across the province, and a total of 2...

A nine metre (30 foot), hand-cut metal sculpture by local Indigenous artist Clint George is now installed and proudly on display in Okanagan College’s new Health Sciences Centre in Kelowna. The ...

British Columbians are being targeted with sophisticated crypto-asset scams through social media and online dating sites. The B.C. RCMP, British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC), Canadian Anti-Fr...

UPDATE: 1:30 p.m. Nov. 3 RCMP say they have identified the suspect involved in an alleged hate incident that occurred on a city bus on Halloween evening. Mounties say public assistance and media repor...

A Kelowna home was searched for explosives by a number of RCMP officers. Kelowna RCMP received a report of possible explosive devices inside a residence in the 400 block of Valley Road on Monday, Nov....

The COVID-19 death toll for the Interior has climbed to 271 as a new death attributed to the virus was identified in the region Tuesday. The death was one of five recorded across the province, and to ...

The British Columbia government is moving ahead with recommendations from the 2020 Old Growth Strategic Review, by temporarily deferring harvest of old-growth in 2.6 million hectares of B.C.’s m...