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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.
Evacuation alert ends for Adams Lake fire
VAVENBY - The Thompson-Nicola Regional District Emergency Operations Centre has been advised by the Wildfire Management Branch that the imminent risk of danger to life and properties due to the Adams West wildfire on Adams River at the north end Adams Lake has diminished at this time. The Evacuation Alert issued at 1615 hours on...
UPDATE: Alleged drunk driver seriously injured after crashing into back of parked truck
KELOWNA - A Lake Country woman is facing charges of drunk driving after she crashed her vehicle into the back of a parked work truck early Wednesday morning. The driver, a 34-year-old Lake Country woman, was in a grey Toyota Yaris when she and her passenger, a 46-year-old man from Kelowna, smashed into the rear...
Little change in Westside Road fire overnight
WEST KELOWNA - Evacuees from roughly 70 homes on Westside Road should expect to remain under order today, according to emergency officials. Current information still shows the fire at 430 hectares but with no containment — no change from last night. Updated information is expected this morning. However Central Okanagan Regional District Emergency Operations says evacuation orders...
UPDATE: Westside Road evacuations remain in effect; fire grows to 430 ha
WEST KELOWNA - Evacuation orders remain in effect for a wildfire burning on Westside Road between La Casa Resort and Lake Okanagan Resort. This morning the emergency operations centre updated and clarified last night's evacuations ordered after heavy winds stoked the fire caused by lightning July 19. The fire grew from 30 hectares to roughly...
Car stolen, crashed but no suspects
KAMLOOPS - Police are looking for someone with perhaps a few fresh wounds after they found a stolen car wrapped around a light standard near Peterson Creek Bridge late last night, July 20. RCMP Sgt. Karen Delorey said in a release this morning police were called to the single vehicle collision on Highway 1 just...
UPDATE: Shelter Cove evacuations expanded as Westside Road wildfire grows
WEST KELOWNA - A growing fire on Westside Road has forced the evacuation of residences near Shelter Cove between La Casa and Lake Okanagan Resort. The fire is now estimated at 30 hectares and growing at Rank Four, a highly vigorous surface fire and torching trees, thanks to heavy winds in the area. CORD Emergency...
Firefighters battling second blaze along Westside Road
WEST KELOWNA - Firefighters are on the scene of a second forest fire on the Westside, this one north of Lake Okanagan Resort and south of the La Casa residential community. There is no need to call 911 or fire dispatch on this matter. Residents along Westside Road near Bear Creek Provincial Park remain on...
UPDATE: Westside Road closed; evacution alert for Bear Creek fire
UPDATE: 8:32 p.m. July 19 RCMP have asked that boaters keep well clear of the area around Bear Creek Park to ensure B.C. Forest Service air tankers and helicopters can safely access water from Okanagan Lake. UPDATE: 7:06 p.m. July 19 Kelowna B.C.– Bear Creek Main at Westside Road and Bear Creek Road at Parkinson...
Impaired driving investigation turns up drug haul in Salmon Arm
SALMON ARM - They stopped him for impaired driving, but came away with so much more. Around 2 a.m. July 14, Salmon Arm RCMP got a tip about an impaired driver on the Trans-Canada Highway, but when they stopped the vehicle and began their investigation they found 1.5 kgs of cocaine in the vehicle, according...
Mexico: Drug lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzman escapes prison through elaborate tunnel; manhunt begins
MEXICO CITY – Mexico mounted an all-out manhunt Sunday for its most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who escaped from a maximum security prison through a 1.5-kilometre (1 mile) tunnel from a small opening in the shower area of his cell, according to the country's top security official.
Letterman un-retires to deliver Top Ten List lampooning presidential candidate Donald Trump
Some things are more important than retirement.
Ontario spent $1.4M to fix up pitted, uneven floors in Pan Am athletes’ village
TORONTO – Pan Am Games organizers say making $1.4 million-dollar upgrades to the floors in the athletes village was a necessary and cost-effective move to preserve the event's international image.
Brazilian cyclists looking to practise for Pan Am Games ride on Toronto highway
TORONTO – Nine Brazilian cyclists looking to practise for the Pan Am Games had a run-in with police after they ended up on a Toronto highway Sunday morning.
CP Investigation: Canada’s embassy in Ukraine used as pawn in 2014 uprising
KYIV, Ukraine – It was one of those events that simply appeared and disappeared during the bloody, swift-moving events of Ukraine in the winter revolution of 2014.
Crews contain 30 per cent of wildfire near Williams Lake
VANCOUVER - Good news in the ongoing battle to contain an aggressive, 70-square-kilometre blaze raging in the Cariboo Region of Central British Columbia. Crews have managed to contain just under a third of the Puntzi Lake fire, burning about 150 kilometres west of Williams Lake. The fire more than doubled in size on Saturday, from...
Poilievre flogs enhanced child care benefit as boost to the economy
OTTAWA – Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre is touting the Conservative government's enhanced child care benefit as boost for the economy while warning that Canadians should take heed of offshore financial chaos.
Universal’s ‘Minion’s takes No. 1 spot at weekend box office in US, Canada with $115.2 million
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Universal's "Minions" overran the box office over the weekend as audiences in the U.S. and Canada shelled out an estimated $115.2 million to see the evil-master-serving horde frolic on the big screen. It was the second-biggest opening ever for an animated film and an easy win for the sidekicks who took...
UPDATE: Two dead in crash in Vernon; police looking for witnesses
VERNON - Two young women from Kelowna were found dead in a head-on collision with another vehicle on Highway 97 in Vernon, early Sunday morning, and another two people from Armstrong are in hospital, police say. The two vehicles collided near the 27 Street overpass just after midnight Sunday morning, July 12. Cpl. Joseph Leeson...
Greece moves closer to desperately needed deal with European creditors to stave off collapse
BRUSSELS – Greece moved closer on Sunday to a desperately needed deal with European creditors which would stave off immediate financial collapse and the country's potential exit from the euro but impose more hardship on its people.
Liberals, NDP to debate proposed B.C. LNG deal during summer legislative session
VICTORIA – British Columbia's politicians are returning to the legislature to debate the details of an agreement that could pave the way for the largest private investment in the province's history — a proposed $36-billion liquefied natural gas export plant.
B.C. man charged with terrorism had no links to local community: mayor
VANCOUVER – A northern British Columbia man who has been charged with terrorism-related offences had no links to the community, the town's mayor said Saturday.
Convoy to allow people back into communities unaffected by Saskatchewan fires
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – Officials were organizing a convoy Saturday to allow people to return to communities unaffected by Saskatchewan's wildfires, but there was no such luck for thousands of evacuees still biding their time in emergency shelters.
Coroner names man shot by B.C. Mounties; police watchdog seeks witnesses
VICTORIA – The 24-year-old man who was shot and killed by Mounties on northern Vancouver Island has been identified by the coroner's service.
Canadian nurse fears Nepal’s quake victims forgotten as need remains dire
KAMLOOPS, B.C. – A nurse practitioner from Williams Lake, B.C., hopes Canadians haven't forgotten the victims of two massive earthquakes in Nepal.