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Canadian seniors refusing to be left behind by the internet
KELOWNA – Not only are seniors embracing new computer technology, they’re generally easier to teach.…
McDONALD: You won’t find me dancing on the grave of the Kelowna Daily Courier
So the building housing the Kelowna Daily Courier could be sold. The newspaper could be…
Victim of Peachland internet date kidnapping ‘begged for her life’
KELOWNA – While his duct-taped victim begged for her life, Jean-Francois Dufour drove around the…
UPDATE: Shaw internet restored for most customers in Interior
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Most Shaw customers will now, or soon, have their internet back up and…
UPDATE: Internet restored to Thompson-Okanagan residents
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – If you were having some technical difficulties today, you weren’t alone. Shortly after…
Vernon teen and dad share words of warning after ‘creepy’ Facebook friend request
VERNON - The name on the Facebook friend request was an unfamiliar one, and this particular Vernon teen might have ignored it, except for the mutual friend they had in common. A tap on her cell phone and just like that, they became friends. It wasn’t until she got home and checked her messages that...
Child lurer enticed victims by saying he was a modelling agent
VERNON - A Vernon man lured Okanagan girls via Facebook by telling them he was a modeling agent looking for young talent, said the Crown. David Clayton Willerth, born in 1974, is scheduled to enter expected guilty pleas for 25 counts, including communicating by computer to lure a person under 16, making or publishing child...