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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.
UPDATE: One lane of Highway 1 near Sicamous open again
UPDATE: 12:15 p.m. Dec. 10 2013 Drivebc.ca is reporting one lane of Hwy 1, previously closed at the Eagle River bridge near Sicamous is open to alternating traffic. UPDATE: 9:04 a.m. Dec. 10, 2013 Kelowna RCMP say the area of Hwy 1 that is closed is at the Eagle River bridge. They expect the road...
Not so fast, Kelowna Mountain
'BRING FORWARD A PROPOSAL IN A PROFESSIONAL WAY THAT CAN BE APPROVED' KELOWNA - The road to a Kelowna Mountain development will still go through the Regional District of Central Okanagan in some form, says chairman Robert Hobson. He renewed the regional district’s stance on the contentious development after hearing through media what developer Mark...
Who owns this vehicle?
LAKE COUNTRY - Lake Country RCMP are looking for a witness to an armed robbery of the Shell gas station on Beaver Lake Road a month ago. Const. Jesse O'Donaghey says a man entered the store and aimed what appeared to be a shotgun at the employee before fleeing on foot with some cash. Police...
Ashlee Hyatt killer denied early release
"BOY CRAZY" GIRL'S BROTHER BANNED FOR PASSING HER DRUGS The girl who stabbed and killed West Kelowna teen Ashlee Hyatt in June, 2010 just isn’t getting the message, according to a local judge who denied her request to get out of jail early. The girl, now 19, applied to have the remainder of her 18-month...
Charged with burning her own car… in an apartment building?
49-YEAR-OLD WOMAN CHARGED WITH ARSON WEST KELOWNA - Police say they charges were laid against a woman suspected of burning her own car on fire in an underground garage last month that could have set the entire apartment building on fire. Shortly before 1 a.m. Oct. 13, the West Kelowna RCMP received a report of...
Sneak peak at new WFN health facility
WESTBANK FIRST NATION - Participants at a Westbank First Nation development conference got first looks at designs for the new Westbank First Nation health facility today. The private health care building is proposed for WFN land overlooking Okanagan Lake and the south slopes. It's envisioned as a 200,000 square-foot full-scale private hospital providing surgeries and...
Winter arrives: Your reactions
It was just a matter of time. This year we only had about a week to gloat to eastern neighbours. Now how long before this all melts? Hours or days?
Nighty night: Police help Halloween drunk find warm place to sleep
KAMLOOPS - Police report a typically busy Halloween night last night with plenty of alcohol and a couple car crashes. Around 1:30 a.m. police were called to Pleasant St where a resident found a man in the back of their truck. The owner held the man there until police arrived. RCMP Sgt. Dave Prentice says...
Police make arrest in Vernon pharmacy robbery
VERNON - Police arrested an unnamed man in connection with a robbery at a drug store in the Fruit Union Plaza last night. Police say the pharmacist reported the robbery around 8:40 p.m. He said the man threatened staff and left the store with some cash. Roughly two hours later, City of Vernon bylaw officers...
Trucker arrested with missing youth
KAMLOOPS - Police have found a missing 15-year-old in the sleeper of a commercial tractor trailer and arrested the driver after reports the youth was being sexually assaulted. Kamloops RCMP were on the lookout for the truck after it was reported around 11 p.m. yesterday that the truck was headed east on Highway 5 to...
Stabbing, beatings keep police busy
KAMLOOPS - Police say one person remains in hospital after a night of mayhem and violence in the city. Police were called to the river shore on Don St. where two men aged 31 and 27 were found fighting. One was struck over the head and the other had multiple superficial stab wounds. They were...
Cutest Halloween costume. Ever.
What a great idea. %%Video1%%
Walking (behind) dead
Ellen sends a couple of staffers through the Walking Dead haunted house and one of them screams like a little ghoul. %%video1%%
Dancing like an elephant
OK, so most people will say this is a video of an elephant playing the piano. More interesting is both elephants start dancing to the beat. %%video1%%
Police dog tracks down robber
KELOWNA - Mounties have a man in custody after a pharmacy was robbed and a vehicle was stolen this morning. Police say the man entered the Shoppers Drug Mart in Orchard Park Mall, brandished a weapon and demanded drugs and keys to a vehicle. He fled the scene with some drugs and the car. RCMP...
VERMA TRIAL: What do jurors know about Verma?
KELOWNA - As a Kelowna jury works its way through its second day in isolation to decide the fate of Joelon "Joey" Verma, it remains unclear just how much they know about his lifestyle. They know he is involved in the drug world but do they perceive him as a bit player as he described?...
Magicians get all the girls
Good to see magicians using their power for good, not evil. %%video1%%
Home explosion on Stevens Road
MARIJUANA OIL EXTRACTION GONE WRONG KAMLOOPS - A house in the 300 block so Stevens Drive was caused by three young men using a butane torch to get oil out of marijuana leaves, police say. RCMP Cpl. Cheryl Bush says two youth were taken to hospital with minor injuries after the blast blew out windows...
VERMA TRIAL: Decision in jury’s hands
UPDATE: The jury is out as of 2 p.m. 9:33 a.m. Oct. 15, 2013 KELOWNA - A jury of 12 people is expected to begin deliberations in the complicated trial of Joelon "Joey" Verma by this afternoon. Last week, Kelowna Supreme Court Justice Alison Beames said she expected to finish giving the jury its final...
Better Halloween costumes
High tech solutions to lame Halloween costumes. Yes, it's an ad but also, yes, you need this. %%video1%%
VERMA TRIAL: Circumstantial case requires interpretation
Proof that Joey Verma killed Brittney Irving to collect on 76 pounds of marijuana lies in dozens of pages of text messages she sent in her last five days, according to final submissions from the Crown. As the first degree murder trial comes to a close, prosecutor Iain Currie admitted to jurors today that the...
Total concentration
One guy tries to study, the other is bored. Who will win? Kinda' seems like a produced video... but pretty good. %%video1%%
Handguns stolen in break and enter
KAMLOOPS - RCMP say two handguns were among items stolen in two residential break and enters last night. The first was in Sedona Pines but it appears the thieves were scared off by a security system around 9:20 p.m. The second was on Arrowstone Drive where the owners of the home were out for the evening....
Tough way to make a point
He's mad as hell and he's not going to ticket anymore! He got a $50 ticket for riding outside of a bike lane and tries to make the point that, well, bike lanes aren't always safe. %%video1%%