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Marshall Jones
News is best when it's local, relevant, timely and interesting. That's our focus every day.
We are on the ground in Penticton, Vernon, Kelowna and Kamloops to bring you the stories that matter most.
Marshall may call West Kelowna home, but after 16 years in local news and 14 in the Okanagan, he knows better than to tell readers in other communities what is "news' to them. He relies on resident reporters to reflect their own community priorities and needs. As the newsroom leader, his job is making those reporters better, ensuring accuracy, fairness and meeting the highest standards of journalism.
iN DISCUSSION: BC Conservative leadership race provides insight into former fringe party
"It looks like they are abandoning any pretext of being a home for centrist-right voters."
iN DISCUSSION: The Snowbirds are grounded. Should we care?
"Canada has deemed the risks of using the 1960s-era tutor jets too great. They are expected to return with a new fleet in 'the early 2030s'."
iN DISCUSSION: Why does our justice system let vexatious litigants waste its time?
"This is about the coughing, sputtering system of justice in this province, this country, that can't seem to see the forest for the trees."
iN DISCUSSION: High unemployment hits differently nowadays
"I've been through periods of high unemployment before and this just doesn't feel the same somehow."
iN DISCUSSION: The power of The Complaint
"I'd like to make a complaint about our complaint departments."
iN DISCUSSION: Please don’t feed wildlife
"If I have had one consistent peeve through my life it's feeding wildlife."
iN DISCUSSION: Debate over access to MAID highlighted in lawsuit against BC hospital
"MLAs Tara Armstrong and Amelia Boultbee both quit within months the BC Conservative Party that got them elected. Armstrong will be recalled over it. Boultbee said on social media she plans to remain an independent, may have been her strategy all along."
iN DISCUSSION: Should voters be able to recall municipal politicians?
"He's left more than a few folks wondering who the real Peter Milobar is."
iN DISCUSSION: How do we deal with ever-evolving scams?
"People often feel deep shame when they are targeted. They don't want to talk about it."
iN DISCUSSION: From BCHL to WHL, Penticton Vees continue to dominate
What's in the Vees secret sauce?
Why we dropped the FOI request behind the drama at Tuesday’s Kamloops council meeting
This council can't seem to do anything without playing games. Well we're taking our political football and going home.
iN DISCUSSION: Rookie independent Penticton MLA blazing her own Sage Mesa trail
Amelia Boultbee pushed out a documentary-style video looking at the plight of residents of a small South Okanagan neighbourhood struggling with a failing private water utility.
iN DISCUSSION: Low Okanagan snowpack may have wildfire season implications
"Keeping up with world and local events these days is like a cat chasing a laser pointer."
BC Mountie sued, exposed undercover officer who accused him of sexual assault
He sued for defamation and fully identified her and her role, then for a time opposed her attempts to redact her name.
Two BC lawyers suspected of playing tricks narrowly escape contempt finding
Trials are complicated already without lawyers gumming up the works intentionally or incompetently, justice says.
iN DISCUSSION: Just how safe are rentable e-scooters?
"I haven't used one yet, mostly because I haven't desired a visit to the Emergency Room."
iN DISCUSSION: Vernon Mounties face tough choices in toxic work environment
"I don't know how to explain how desperate some Mounties in Vernon must be to speak with reporters at all, let alone tell Ben Bulmer about serious trouble at their detachment."
iN DISCUSSION: Okanagan MLA Tara Armstrong uses tragedy for political gain
"It's like they didn't have enough sports to make it a thing so they just started making stuff up."
iN DISCUSSION: Ban on social media for kids? I have a better idea
There was a time I could make a case for social media as a public good, back when it actually connected old friends, grandparents with grandchildren or people with similar hobbies or ideas to explore.
iN DISCUSSION: Vernon MP swept up in moral panic over ostriches
"Anderson was back in the news this week, trying desperately to keep lit the torch he chose to bear."
iN DISCUSSION: The impact of rising police budgets in Okanagan, Kamloops
Hard times are coming, it's time to prepare.
iN DISCUSSION: Okanagan winter inversion recipe for the blues
"There have always been homeless people with mental illness or drug addiction or both but now I expect to see some sort of confrontation whenever I am out in public."
iN DISCUSSION: No where else in the world was the shooting of Renee Good justified
Another day, another snuff video from American civil society.
iN DISCUSSION: More Canadians want in on MAID
When you've seen people in a hospital at their last, at their worst, you can't help but wonder if there's a better way.