Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

The Regional Kelowna RCMP is reminding the public that school zones are back in effect as students return to classrooms. School zones are back in effect on school days and the 30 km/hr zones will be e...

Many RDCO parks reopen as local fires subside The White Rock Lake and Mt. Law wildfires are now both classified as "under control" by BC Wildfire. With changes in Evacuation Alerts and Orders in many ...

UPDATE: 12:30 p.m. Sept. 6 As clean up begins for many residents in the wildfire-affected properties within the Regional District of Central Okanagan (RDCO), the North Westside Transfer Station has ex...

A crash involving four vehicles has left one person dead, four others injured and closed the highway between Golden and Revelstoke this morning. Just after 8 a.m. Sept. 5, officers from the Golden RCM...

The Penticton RCMP is investigating after a man's body was discovered at a Penticton school field earlier this morning. Just before 6 a.m. on Sunday September 5, RCMP officers were called to assist BC...

The start of the school year will be extra memorable for some students and staff in Lake Country. They will be attending the new H.S. Grenda Middle school in Winfield which has capacity for 600 studen...

On Saturday morning, Central Okanagan Search and Rescue, the Kelowna Fire Department, RCMP, and BCAS teamed up to rescue a hiker that had fallen from a cliff above the Gillard Forest Service Road. The...

UPDATE Sept. 6 The Hedges Butte wildfire southwest of Penticton is now mapped at 166 hectares (down from the earlier 236) due to more accurate mapping of the perimeter. The BC Wildfire Service says fi...

UPDATE: 3:05 p.m. Sept. 4 More properties in the Regional District of North Okanagan are no longer on evacuation order due to the White Rock Lake wildfire. The order issued for RDNO Electoral Area "B"...

Kelowna RCMP Police Dog Services assisted in the arrest of a man who allegedly assaulted another person with a weapon. Mounties received reports of an assault with a weapon inside a residence on Bach ...