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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.
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?
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%%
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%%
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%%
Quitting in style… and the videos it created
When we first saw this video by Mirna Shifrin quitting her journalism job with a funky dance video, we thought we were the only ones interested because it was about journalism. Well, nearly 10 million views and a new meme later... here is the video and some of the off-shoots including a great response from...
Watch out for that… car?
A few weeks ago we showed you a compilation of miracle survivors from Russian car crashes. Well thanks to this video we understand why everyone in Russia has a dash cam to have captured those accidents—they are protecting themselves. From pedestrians. Watch this video and you will understand. %%video1%%
Flying bunnies
So, according to YouTube, this family found this baby bunny in its garage. They kept it for a week. They fed it. They pet it. They loved it. You know where this is going so make sure the little kids are out of the room. %%video1%%
BOMB THREAT: Orchard Park Mall back open for business
"PRECAUTIONARY PURPOSES" KELOWNA - Kelowna RCMP have released Orchard Park Mall and its parking lot after it was evacuated last night due to a bomb threat. RCMP Cpl. Bill Parmar said the threat was called in to police around 5:45 p.m. and "for precautionary purposes we evacuated the mall." This morning, Const. Kris Clark confirmed...
Border guards are like everyone else
Fastest way to get through a border patrol? Make it really uncomfortable. %%video1%%
Re-thinking cell phones
Comedians. Is there anything they don't know? Louis C.K. gives his view on cell phones. Guessing he wasn't in line for the iPhone 5S. %%video1%%
No jail for woman who stole from school band program
A Kelowna woman who stole more than $20,000 raised by students at Okanagan Mission Secondary school will not see the inside of a jail cell, but must repay all of the money. Elizabeth Sherwood, 47, pleaded guilty to theft over $5,000 Monday. She was the treasurer of the school band program in 2010/2011—maintained outside the...
Joking Bad
Here we capitalize on the greatest series on TV. No, not Jimmy Fallon, but his take on the Breaking Bad series is pretty darn good. Not exactly safe for work so good thing it's Saturday. %%video1%%
Ellen upstaged
OK, so not exactly trending NOW. This is a little old but worth a watch again. %%video1%%
Fly like an eagle
Well not like an eagle, per se. More like fly with an eagle. On its back, like a hobbit or an imprisoned wizard or a GoPro camera. Anyway, moving on: Feel free to relive a childhood dream or two. %%video1%%