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Missing Salmon Arm senior found deceased

SALMON ARM - The search for a missing senior ended tragically yesterday after the Salmon Arm woman was found deceased. Mildred Ekren, 76, was last seen near her home by Fifth Street and 10th Avenue in Salmon Arm before she went missing around around noon yesterday, Dec. 7. There was an increased concern for her...

Vernon father and son killed in tragic plane crash loved to soar

VERNON - A father and son from Vernon died doing something they both loved: going ‘wheels up’. Brad Chapman, 56, learned to fly in his 40s and passed that passion onto his oldest son, Florian, 26, who got his pilot’s license as a teenager. As key principals in the Chapman Group of Companies, flying offered...

Cattle poaching problem continues in the North Okanagan

VERNON - Another cow was found killed and left to rot over the weekend. It was found Saturday, Oct. 10, on the Aberdeen Forest Service Road in Lavington. The cow appeared to have been shot, but no meat was taken. It’s the fourth cow to be found dead on range land leased by the Coldstream...

Police investigate deadly crash in Spallumcheen

SPALLUMCHEEN - A man is dead after crashing his car on the highway just south of Armstrong early this morning. RCMP say an off-duty police officer discovered the man’s flipped car around 4:20 a.m., Aug. 21, on Highway 97A at Eagle Rock Road. “The investigators have determined the vehicle was north bound (and) jumped the...

Kelowna man who died while rafting lived and loved ‘all in’

"DON'T FORGET HOW LUCKY YOU ARE TO LOVE YOUR LOVED ONES SO MUCH IT HURTS" KELOWNA – They were high school sweethearts planning their dream Kelowna wedding when Rene Bourgault’s life was cut short in a tragic rafting accident last weekend. Friends, family and everyone who has been touched by his life are mourning his...

UPDATE: Coroner identifies victim in Shuswap house boat accident

SICAMOUS - A young Alberta woman died in a house boat accident last Friday. The accident happened on Shuswap Lake near the Cinnemousun Narrows about 15 km north of Sicamous Friday, July 10. Andrea Mary Jacura, 22, of Edmonton, Alberta died Friday while swimming in Shuswap Lake in B.C.'s Southern Interior. The woman was behind...

Kelowna women killed in Vernon car crash identified

VERNON - The B.C. Coroners Service has released the identities of two women who died in a head-on car accident in Vernon over the weekend. They were Chantal Diane Bazin, 22, and Kayla Elizabeth Cartwright, 26, both from Kelowna. According to a press release from the coroner Larry Marzinzik, Bazin was the driver, and Cartwright the...

Vernon cyclist dies of crash injuries

VERNON - A Vernon cyclist has died after suffering serious injuries in a car accident last week. The 38-year-old woman, whose name is not yet being released, was hit by a truck the morning of Thursday, July 2, on 25 Avenue. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says it appears the woman rode in front of the...

Missing person last seen with man discovered dead in Kal Lake: Family

VERNON - A person last seen with the man who turned up dead in Kalamalka Lake has not been seen or heard from since Saturday, June 27, prompting concerned family members to plead for information from the public. Shanna Wilson says her brother, Curtis Wilson, was last seen in Vernon Saturday morning having breakfast with...

Motorcyclist dies after hitting rock face near Sicamous

SICAMOUS - Police are investigating after a Malawka man died in a motorcycle crash Thursday night. So far, the RCMP have learned two motorcycles were travelling together northbound on Highway 97A towards Sicamous around 7 p.m., April 23. “One of the motorcycles went off road striking a rock face, coming to rest in the southbound...

Victim of fatal rock climbing accident near Vernon identified

VERNON - A teen who died in a rock climbing accident near Vernon this past weekend has been identified. He was Taylor Samuel Archer, 18, from New Westminster. Archer was hiking with friends near the King Edward Forest Service Road about 15 kilometres east of Vernon on April 11, states a release from the B.C....

Why Enderby’s tragic dementia case won’t be the last

ENDERBY - The neighbours of a friendly Enderby senior are in shock after the 73-year-old went missing and was found dead in a remote fishing area far from home days later. Barbara Nell Derenowski lived alone in a rented unit of a house on Salmon Arm Drive in Enderby. Sometime after 2:30 p.m. Monday, she...

Snowmobile accident claims life of Salmon Arm teen

ENDERBY - A Salmon Arm teen is dead after a snowmobiling accident near Enderby. The 16-year-old Salmon Arm boy was snowmobiling with his father and others Dec. 28 in Hunters Range, but got separated from the group, RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says. He wasn’t separated for long, but when his father tried to contact him...

UPDATE: Man in fatal industrial accident in Spallumcheen identified

SPALLUMCHEEN - The B.C. Coroners Service has identified the man who died in a fatal industrial accident in Spallumcheen Wednesday afternoon. He was John Elliot Sleypen, 50, of Kamloops. A Valley Roadways truck driver had just delivered a load of posts to Rapid-Span Structures on Industrial Drive in Spallumcheen around 1:30 p.m. He was in...