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Double-digit sentences for armed men guilty of North Okanagan home invasion
April 14, 2025 - 1:23 PM

It was midnight and James Jurica and his then-girlfriend Candice Kado were awake and lying in bed at their rural Lumby home when two men, armed with a shotgun and with masks pulled over their faces, broke in.
Police, lawyers differ on severity of pipe bomb that shut down Vernon area for 10 hours
February 24, 2025 - 7:00 PM

Cody Troy Douglas Smith was likely high when he passed out behind the wheel of a stolen car parked outside a Vernon dollar store.
Five-and-a-half years jail for serial Kamloops sex offender
February 24, 2025 - 6:00 PM

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'Vile and repulsive': Misogynistic Vernon senior jailed for road rage
February 10, 2025 - 1:45 PM
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Prosecutors speed up Kamloops trial of suspected gangland drug traffickers
January 30, 2025 - 7:00 PM

Prosecutors are taking two Kamloops men straight to trial as they face drug trafficking and gun charges. The men were initially charged during the height of a local gang conflict last spring.
Crown want 19 years jail for violent North Okanagan grow-op robbery
December 13, 2024 - 4:04 PM

Armed with shotguns and with their faces covered, Edward Scott Coghill and Stewart Wayne Tkachuk had zip ties in their pockets when they broke into the Lumby home of James Jurica and Candice Kado at 1 a.m. suspecting it was grow-op.
'The most unsuccessful criminal:' 70-year-old Vernon man jailed for bank robbery
December 06, 2024 - 1:26 PM

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Kamloops city councillor's secret recording scandal far from over
December 06, 2024 - 7:00 AM

Kamloops city councillor Bill Sarai's apology is the beginning of another chapter at city hall now that the truth of his secret recording has been revealed.
Retired RCMP officer convicted of killing his wife in Penticton up for parole
November 21, 2024 - 7:00 PM

The family of a woman brutally killed by a retired RCMP officer in Penticton is heartbroken, angry and devastated that the convicted murderer will soon be applying for parole.
North Okanagan man sent to prison for revenge porn uploads
November 06, 2024 - 7:00 AM

At one point after their relationship was over North Okanagan resident Ansen George Hannah sent his former partner a message saying that "one day" he would get her back "either by revenge or not."
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Epic cherry season expected in Okanagan and Kamloops
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UBCO, TRU study finds cannabis use helps in recovery from hard drugs
A new study from UBC Okanagan and Thompson Rivers University has found that cannabis use can offer benefits to people undergoing treatment for substance use. People living in a residential recovery facility were given supervised amounts of

Why Kelowna's treatment of homeless encampments has changed over the years
The addition of fences, security guards, identification stamps and a lots of cops at the end of March changed the landscape at the homeless tent city along a section of the Okanagan Rail Trail in Kelowna. Some called it dystopian, others sa

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