News Items tag as: Lori Vance

Suing your drunk driver: The path taken by two Okanagan families devastated by 2014 crash
June 18, 2018 - 6:30 PM

VERNON - Two families whose lives were changed forever by a drunk driver didn’t get to leave the nightmare behind them after the offender was convicted and taken away to jail. They went back to court.
Parole board worried about Vernon woman's plans to marry a high profile offender
May 24, 2018 - 11:00 AM

VERNON - Having a romantic relationship with another offender isn’t helping a Vernon woman’s chances of getting full parole.
Vernon woman serving time for 2014 fatal crash denied full parole due to 'undue risk'
January 16, 2018 - 5:00 PM

VERNON - A Vernon woman convicted of drunk driving causing the death of an Okanagan nurse has been denied a request for full parole because she hasn't dealt with her alcohol issues yet.
UPDATE: "I despise myself:" Drunk driver sentenced for fatal Vernon car crash
February 27, 2017 - 4:50 PM

VERNON - Lori Victoria Vance drank four shots of tequila, plus beer, before getting behind the wheel and hitting a car with two Vernon Jubilee Hospital nurses inside, court heard today during an emotional sentence hearing into the 2014 drunk driving case.
Impaired driving guilty plea expected from Vernon woman in 2014 fatal crash
February 15, 2017 - 11:08 AM

VERNON - A woman accused of impaired driving causing death is expected to plead guilty to the crime later this month.
Trial date set for woman facing eight charges in fatal Vernon car crash
May 03, 2016 - 5:22 PM

VERNON - A woman charged with impaired driving causing death in connection with a tragic crash that left a local nurse dead and a second badly injured will stand trial early next year.
Alleged drunk driver will stand trial for Vernon crash that killed one nurse and injured another
February 16, 2016 - 10:46 AM

VERNON - A woman charged in connection with a tragic crash involving two local nurses will stand trial.
Charges laid in crash that took the life of a Vernon nurse
March 03, 2015 - 12:20 PM

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.
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Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Advocacy group calls on Vancouver to 'embrace' cannabis tourism after 4-20 'debacle'
VANCOUVER - The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op

Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each time Ignition Developments goes to the commission, i

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