Shelley Jordan
RCMP need the licence plate number of truck in attempted child luring case
WEST KELOWNA - The public is doing a great job phoning in tips about the red pickup truck described in the attempted child luring case in West Kelowna, but RCMP really need help getting the licence plate number and name of the driver. The West Kelowna detachment has been inundated with tips about the red...
Government green helping local school districts go green
OKANAGAN - A couple local school districts will each get a slice of a provincial $5 million pie to direct toward energy saving initiatives in their schools. Vernon School District 22 will receive $157,000 while Central Okanagan School District 23 will see $159,960 from the Ministry of Education's Carbon Neutral Program. Both will use the...
Canadian charged in spam scheme involving one billion email addresses
ATLANTA – A Canadian has been charged after computer hackers stole a whopping one billion email addresses from U.S. marketing companies in what authorities described Friday as one of the largest digital data breaches in history.
Memo to Canadian politicians: Don’t try Hillary Clinton’s email tricks at home
WASHINGTON – The bad news for any Canadian politician inspired by Hillary Clinton to set up a do-it-yourself email system is that it could potentially involve the Mounties, handcuffs, and a two-year sojourn in the slammer.
Pie-eyed driver who travelled B.C. highways jailed for three months
KAMLOOPS – Getting pie-eyed on hard liquor and repeatedly driving long distances on B.C. highways has landed a 41-year-old alcoholic behind bars for three months.
Canadian oil extraction is ‘extraordinarily dirty’ process, Obama says
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama has some less-than-laudatory words for Canada's oil industry in a new example of his increasingly critical take on the oilsands.
Court rules that Calgary man charged in stabbing deaths will stand trial
CALGARY – An Alberta judge has ruled that there is enough evidence to send a man accused in Calgary's worst mass murder to trial.
Engineering professor is UBC Okanagan Researcher of the Year
KELOWNA - An engineering professor with a penchant for designing lighter and stronger aerospace materials has been named UBC Okanagan’s Researcher of the Year. Associate Professor Abbas Milani of the School of Engineering was recognized at a gala event wrapping up UBC’s Celebrate Research Week on Friday. Milani, who joined UBC in 2007, has designed...
Charges laid in crash that took the life of a Vernon nurse
VERNON - Charges have been laid in relation to an accident on 32 Street that took the life of a Vernon nurse in the early morning hours of Oct. 23, 2014. Vernon RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says Lori Victoria Vance will appear in court March 19 to face charges of impaired driving causing death and...
What south Okanagan off-roaders need to know before heading out on the trail
OLIVER - Off-roading on Oliver Mountain, the Osoyoos West Bench and the impact on the area's sensitive grassland ecosystem will be focus topics at two open house meetings March 11. The meetings are scheduled for Wed. March 11 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the Senora Community Centre located at 8505-68 Ave., Osoyoos, and Thurs....
Suspects take two guns during terrifying home invasion
VERNON - RCMP are asking for public assistance to help them find several suspects who forced their way into a Vernon home to steal guns from a safe at The Strand Lakeside Resort. The resort is located along Okanagan Landing Road near Okanagan Landing Elementary School. The 34-year-old victim of the home invasion was restrained,...
UPDATE: Missing Enderby woman found dead
UPDATE: 9:39 A.M. MAR. 5 A missing senior with dementia was found dead Wednesday afternoon. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says people fishing in the Salmon Lake area found Barbara Derenowski, missing since Monday afternoon, and reported it to the Merritt RCMP detachment. “Early indications appear that Barbara got her truck stuck in snow on a...
Man described as drunk, armed and distraught taken into custody in Salmon Arm
SALMON ARM - An apparently distraught, intoxicated man who was carrying a firearm was eventually taken into custody near Salmon Arm Wednesday evening. RCMP received a report about the man March 4 at 5:11 p.m. They were told he was drunk in a vehicle on a rural property of Black Road and that he had...
Canada’s deadliest avalanche remembered 105 years after it took 58 lives
ROGERS PASS, B.C. – An abandoned railway line is all that remains at the summit of the Rogers Pass to mark the spot where 58 men lost their lives in what's believed to be Canada's deadliest avalanche.
B.C. man accused of terror plot pleaded with undercover cop for explosives
VANCOUVER – A British Columbia man accused of plotting to attack the provincial legislature on Canada Day pleaded with an undercover officer to give him explosives, promising that the alleged plan was coming "from his heart."