Jessica Wallace

KAMLOOPS - The criminal history of one of the victims has begun to unravel before the jury in a Kamloops murder trial. Roy Frederick Fraser is charged with first and second degree murder after the bodies of Kenneth Yaretz Jr., 24, and Damien Marks, 31, were found buried at Knouff Lake in 2009. He pleaded...

KAMLOOPS - Roy Fraser told police, "I hope you find them" during a missing persons investigation for the two men he is now accused of murdering, a jury heard today. More than four years later, Fraser has pleaded not guilty to the murders of Damien Marks, 31, and Kenneth Yaretz Jr., 24, and is in...

24 PEOPLE FOUND IT WASN'T SO EASY KAMLOOPS - The police car turns off its flashing lights and drives up the Summit Connector. An unsuspecting student thinks the coast is clear and crosses, scurrying quickly across the road right past a sign warning jaywalkers will be ticketed. "They'll cross right where the sign is," says...

KAMLOOPS - A man found murdered and buried at Knouff Lake was an associate of a high-profile gang member, the jury heard today. Ken Yaretz Jr.'s stepmother testified today during the double murder trial of Roy Frederick Fraser, and revealed the victim was friendly with notorious Independent Soldier Jayme Russell before he was found dead....

KAMLOOPS - Inappropriate events at a slumber party have landed one man three years probation, but if the Crown had it's way — he'd be in jail. The Crown recommended jail-time and sex offender treatment for the Chase man responsible for 'bizarre and troubling' events at a teenage sleepover in 2011. The court ordered a...

KAMLOOPS - The Crown alleged today that two men were shot to death before they were buried at a Knouff Lake property in 2009. The Crown's opening statement was heard today in B.C. Supreme Court on the first day of a double murder trial expected to last four to five weeks in Kamloops. Roy Frederick...

KAMLOOPS - A double murder trial is scheduled to begin in Kamloops on Tuesday. Jury selection was completed this week in Kamloops Supreme Court, and Roy Fraser will go to trial for two murder charges. The charges came after two men, Kenneth Yaretz and Damien Marks, were found dead at Knouff Lake. Fraser has elected...

KAMLOOPS - University sure isn't how it used to be. University students circa 2013 may listen to lectures from home in their pyjamas, register, pay and check their grades from one www.location, and may never actually come face-to-face with their actual professors. TRU recently launched it's online MBA program and TRU's Open Learning online course...

KAMLOOPS - The Crown is seeking additional probation conditions for a convicted teenage arsonist, imprisoned last year as an adult. Tristan Fernandez, 16, pleaded guilty to arson and break and enter charges in October 2012 after he lit fire to a North Kamloops home and killed a family's pet dog in April of that year....

KAMLOOPS - The mother of a 26-year-old woman who has been missing since September pleaded with the public for information today at the downtown RCMP detachment. "Help me find my daughter," said Shirley Paul, who travelled to Kamloops from Alberta to address the media. "Her family has been searching for her since she has been...

KAMLOOPS - A 54-year-old man who went on a criminal rampage throughout the province before he was caught by police in Kamloops will be imprisoned for 42 months, a judge ruled today. Barrie Quirt Friesen was sentenced today in Kamloops provincial court on 21 counts throughout Vancouver, Oliver, Cache Creek, Sicamous, Midway and Kamloops. Friesen...

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY DOESN'T BEGIN TO DESCRIBE IT KAMLOOPS - A Cache Creek man was handed probation today after showing up to a friend's house drunk and claiming to be an Independent Soldiers gangster and threatening to kill his friend and his family, along with a cop and two jail guards. Bradley Joseph Lawrence, 23,...

CHALLENGES ARE SHARED BY AN ENTIRE FAMILY KAMLOOPS - There's nothing Jaxon Leader can't or won't get into. The four-year-old will find his way in. If it's locked, he'll put all his energy into the challenge and find a way. Baby locks won't hold him back and neither will duct tape, security gates or tricks....

'YOU NEED TO TEACH YOUR KIDS RESPECT' KAMLOOPS - A young Kamloops family is living together in a single bedroom after being denied several rental leases because of their son's developmental disabilities, including autism. The family of four was forced to move into their parents' house after two rental agreements fell through in September, leaving...