Category Archives: (Portal – Vernon Matters) Kelowna

Drivers are being asked to temporarily avoid travel on the Coquihalla Highway from Hope to Merritt starting Tuesday (Feb. 27) night. Environment Canada issued a winter storm watch for the stretch of H...

A Shuswap woman realized she was being scammed just in time before giving $6,500. In a news release, Salmon Arm RCMP say a woman received a home call on Feb. 7 from a man saying her grandson was in ja...

A crowd gathered outside Vernon City Hall to mark the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The event, held Saturday, Feb. 24, was called ‘Canada Stands with Ukraine Until Victo...

Record temperatures were set in three Okanagan communities on a blustery Sunday (Feb. 25) including Vernon. Environment Canada said the weather system on Feb. 25 brought mild weather and gusty winds t...

Two Interior-based projects aimed at addressing HIV, Hepatitis C, and other blood-borne illnesses are benefiting from a federal investment. Through the HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund, the f...

The trial of a Vernon doctor accused of sexual assault is scheduled to get underway today (Feb. 26) in provincial court. Dr. Peter Inkpen is facing a total of six charges after accusations from severa...

Jury selection is scheduled to begin today (Feb. 26) for a North Okanagan murder trial. Jevon Daniel Smith - born in 1975 - is accused of second degree murder in the shooting death of Dakota Samoleski...

The RCMP’s Southeast District Major Crime Unit (SED MCU) is investigating a homicide in the Shuswap. Police say a man was found dead after being shot in the parking lot of the Best Western Hotel...

A man facing a number of charges is being sought by police after failing to appear in court. The Vernon North Okanagan RCMP is asking for the public’s assistance to locate 52-year-old Stewart Wa...

Police are looking to talk to any witnesses to fatal crash on Highway 97 between Vernon and Kamloops earlier this month. On Monday, Feb. 12, at 5:50 p.m., there was a head-on collision between two com...