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Howard Alexander
Assistant Editor Howard Alexander comes to iNFOnews.ca from the broadcasting side of the media business.
Howard has been a reporter, news anchor, talk show host and news director, first in Saskatchewan and then the Okanagan.
He moved his family to Vernon in the 90s and is proud to call the Okanagan home.
If you have an event to share contact Howard at 250-309-5343or email halexander@infonews.ca.
UPDATE: RCMP locate missing Vernon man
UPDATE: 9:25 a.m., Monday, Dec. 19, 2016 VERNON – Vernon RCMP say a 49-year-old missing…
Designer of Gord Downie’s suits raises money with keychains built from leftovers
TORONTO – Keychains made from scraps of leather used to tailor Gord Downie's eye-catching metallic…
Court hears guilty pleas in cattle-abuse case in B.C.’s Fraser Valley
CHILLIWACK, B.C. – A company that owns a dairy farm in British Columbia's Fraser Valley…
B.C. coroner, police, politicians issue overdose alert after 11 deaths
VANCOUVER – An urgent warning has been sent out to illicit drug users in British…
Rutland overdose prevention site not opening as per B.C. government plan
KELOWNA – The Interior Health Authority isn’t going into specifics, but the overdose prevention site…
Community Christmas meal at Kelowna’s Gospel Mission
KELOWNA – Kelowna’s Gospel Mission will serve their annual Christmas Dinner to anyone in the…
Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation’s Light a Bulb campaign at $208,505
VERNON – With nine days to go until Christmas, Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation’s Light a Bulb…
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Rogue One’ is a dark, exhilarating blast
OPINION "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story " seemed suspicious on paper, like any…
At least three deaths may be attributed to extreme cold weather in B.C.
VICTORIA – British Columbia's coroners' service says extreme cold weather across the province may be…
UPDATE: Missing Kelowna teenager located
UPDATE: 10:28 a.m., Friday, Dec. 16, 2016 WEST KELOWNA – RCMP say the 14-year-old girl…
B.C. offers five-year, interest-free down-payment loans to first-time buyers
SURREY, B.C. – British Columbia's government wants to help first-time homebuyers get into the market…
Federal government moves to ban asbestos by 2018
OTTAWA – After years in which thousands of Canadians were diagnosed annually with deadly, asbestos-related…
Safety board urges life-jacket laws, stability assessments after fatal B.C. capsizing
RICHMOND, B.C. – The federal government should look at the success of seatbelt laws when…
Trump would be climate-change challenge, Clinton likely victor, feds figured
OTTAWA – Canadian diplomats in Washington warned Ottawa earlier this year that a Donald Trump…
Aleppo cease-fire unravels, raising spectre of bloody end
BEIRUT – A cease-fire to evacuate rebel fighters and civilians from the remaining opposition-held neighbourhoods…
Alan Thicke’s death raises question: When should seniors hang up their skates?
A cardiologist says there's no right age for someone to hang up their skates in…
‘Cancelling Christmas’: Two kids, mother, great-grandmother die in Ontario house fire
PORT COLBORNE, Ont. – A house engulfed in flames several metres high. A father running…
Pet respirators are now onboard Lake Country Fire Department trucks
LAKE COUNTRY – Tri Lake Animal Hospital has donated two sets of oxygen masks for…
‘Iconic’ Alan Thicke remembered as a ‘hungry artist’
TORONTO – Edmonton writer-director Chris Craddock last saw Alan Thicke about two weeks ago at…
Two Kelowna Rockets crack the Top Prospects Game roster
KELOWNA – Two Kelowna Rockets players have been invited to compete in the 2017 Sherwin-Williams…
B.C. town considers deer contraceptive to control animals eating up gardens
OAK BAY, B.C. – Residents of a picturesque community on Vancouver Island have had enough…
High-risk B.C. woman with newborn baby has been found: New Westminster police
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. – Police in New Westminster, B.C., say a 39-year-old "high-risk" woman and…
Kelowna Rockets edged in OT by Tigers in Medicine Hat
MEDICINE HATE – The Medicine Hat Tigers defeated the Kelowna Rockets 8-7 in overtime on…
Actor Alan Thicke dies at age 69: Publicist
Canadian Alan Thicke, a versatile performer who gained his greatest renown as the beloved dad…