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Why the government thinks someone intentionally blocked a culvert causing flood damage in the North Okanagan

VERNON - Plastic and wood debris found near a culvert after a devastating landslide in the North Okanagan in 2014 leads investigators to believe the flood was human caused, according to information obtained by iNFOnews.ca. Investigators with the Ministry of Forests announced in November 2015 they believed someone intentionally blocked a culvert, causing Dale Lake...

Male released from custody without charge in Lee Creek suspicious death investigation

LEE CREEK - A man taken into custody in relation to a suspicious death in Lee Creek has been released without charge while police continue to investigate. Officers attended a home in the 2500 block of Squilax-Anglemont Road to follow up on a report of shots fired Saturday evening, Nov. 28. After arriving on scene, police...

Whereabouts of missing workers from Vernon remain a mystery

VERNON - Two months after going missing, four migrant workers last seen in the Okanagan still have not been located. The four men, from Mexico, were working at an orchard in Vernon before going missing in late June. According to the Vernon RCMP, they’d been in Canada for ten days before taking a cab from...

Vernon man sentenced to jail time for child porn possession

VERNON - A Vernon man snared in a nation-wide child pornography investigation has been put behind bars. Rylan Sandberg, 46, was one of 150 Canadians arrested as a result of the investigation, which began in February 2014. A 49-year-old Vernon man and a 29-year-old Kelowna man were also arrested. Sandberg pleaded guilty to possession of...