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Street names to memorialize Maple Ridge victim in Las Vegas mass shooting

City hall is considering naming three streets in a new subdivision to memorialize a Maple Ridge man killed in a Las Vegas mass shooting. The site was once a farm where he grew up, and his parents are moved by the gesture from developer Morningstar Homes. The new 104-home subdivision off Silver Valley Road would

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Okanagan woman gets jail, ordered to pay back $350k for 17 years of welfare fraud

Multiple schemes to defraud the government over 17 years earned an Okanagan woman more than two years in jail and an order to pay back over $350,000. According to the judgement published on Nov. 27, Norlene Dale White, 66, was sentenced on Oct. 17 in Penticton court after being found guilty in 2024 by a

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‘Outraged’: Accused murderer’s trial moved from Vernon to Kamloops

A Lumby man who is accused of murdering his ex-wife has had his trial moved from Vernon to Kamloops in a move that has the victim’s family frustrated with the system. Vitali Stefanski is accused of murdering his ex-wife, Lumby mother Tatjana Stefanski, in April 2024. He appeared in Vernon Supreme Court Wednesday, Nov. 26,

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