Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

More residents displaced by the White Rock Lake wildfire can now go home. The Regional District of Central Okanagan has rescinded an Evacuation Order for La Casa Lakeside Resort, Fintry, Upper Fintry ...

B.C. is reporting 1,079 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend. That includes 422 cases on Saturday, 364 on Sunday and 293 today. Fifty-four per cent of the weekend cases were in Interior Health (IH) wit...

Residents in Spallumcheen can breathe a little easier. The township announced today it is lifting an evacuation alert covering the entire community. BC Wildfire Service is reporting that though the Wh...

B.C. is reducing the wait time between COVID-19 doses from 49 days to 28 days. The change is due to rising case numbers, a number that is currently at about 70 percent in B.C. for those 12 and older, ...

VERNON, B.C. – For hundreds of small businesses in dozens of communities across rural British Columbia, the devastating impact of this season's wildfires are just one more blow to an economy alr...

The B.C. government will start offering free transit for children 12 and under as of Sept. 1, 2021. Anyone who typically buys fares or monthly bus passes for children 12 and under will no longer need ...

The Regional District of Central Okanagan has issued water quality advisories for the Upper Fintry, Westshore and Killiney Beach water systems in the Westside Road area. RDCO says the advisories come ...

Residents in the Central Okanagan evacuated by the White Rock Lake wildfire are still waiting to hear if they can go home. The Regional District of Central Okanagan issued a news release just after 5:...

Some evacuated residents on the Okanagan Indian Band (OKIB) reserve are allowed to go home. OKIB issued a news release just after 4:00 p.m. Sunday, saying the Evacuation Order issued on August 6, to t...

The new estimated size of the White Rock Lake wildfire, west of Vernon, is 55,700 hectares, up by 700 ha. from Saturday. In its update at 1:00 p.m. Sunday, the BC Wildfire Service said the fire remain...