Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

RCMP is investigating a report of a road rage incident that turned violent in the Black Mountain area of Kelowna. Police say the incident occurred at the intersection of Highway 33 and Loseth Road at ...

Kelowna’s newest radio station is now on-air. OV 103.9, formerly known as The Lake, began broadcasting Tuesday, April 2. It’s also known as That ’70’s Station, and will be play...

A Kelowna Rockets forward is nominated for the WHL’s Humanitarian of the Year Award after helping save a person’s life. In December of 2023, 19-year-old Ty Hurley saw a man struggling in a...

Ian Cole vividly recalls how he felt before skating out for his first NHL playoff game. "Honestly, I just remember being scared," he said, punctuating his sentence with a mild expletive. "You're so sc...

RCMP say two people were found dead at a business in the north end of Kelowna earlier this week. At least one of the deaths is being treated as a homicide. On Wednesday, March 27, at around 2:30 p.m.,...

An online petition had generated close to 1,000 names in support of preventing the North Okanagan Knights junior hockey team from being relocated. The total was as of Friday morning (March 29), one da...

The format for the first — and likely last — Rocky Mountain Challenge has been announced by the BC Hockey League. The event will see the Alberta and B.C. playoff champions playing in a bes...

The price for fuel in Kelowna jumped just before the Easter long weekend. The fuel price tracking website Gas Buddy reported the average price per litre of regular gasoline in the city was $1.74.9 Thu...

More affordable child care spaces are opening in Kelowna. The B.C. and federal governments announced Thursday that the Canada-British Columbia Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement would...

Travellers won’t have to worry about highway closures north of Summerland over the Easter long weekend. The section of Highway 97 where slope stabilization work has been taking place, will remai...