Nelson police, supported by officers from local RCMP officers and with assistance from the Nelson Fire Department, arrested a suicidal 31-year-old man who had been barricaded inside an apartment in the Medical Arts Building on Ward Street late Tuesday evening following a six-hours-long standoff. Police closed the 400 block ...

A 39-year-old woman is facing charges of Mischief under $5000 after Nelson Police responded to a call of a person locked inside a bathroom of a local business. The call came in Friday (May 29) at 7 p.m. from a local business. Staff said a female entered the bathroom and was refusing to leave after […]

Shortly after 8 a.m. on May 29, Richmond RCMP responded to the 9000 block of Walford Street, for a report of a Break and Enter in progress. A local home owner was startled to find an unwanted male in his residence. This suspect fled once discovered. Police quickly established a containment field and officers scoured the area...

Police are concerned with the increase in speed and alcohol-related incidents on the highways in the region said Sgt. John Ferguson, NCO of the West Kootenay Traffic Services in a prepared statement Friday. "The West Kootenay Traffic Services and Nelson Integrated Road Safety Unit are starting to see a very scary trend in our...

Nelson Police were forced to use a Conducted Energy Weapon (CEW) to disarm a distraught woman with a knife Sunday at an apartment building in the Heritage City. Nelson Police Department Acting Sergeant Brian Weber said in a prepared statement said the woman became enraged, and started toward the officers with a knife in hand....

Police are confident that the cause of a house explosion and fire on May 22 in Courtenay is criminal in nature.  Police conducted a search of the residence, after obtaining a search warrant under the Controlled Drug and Substances Act, on May 23and located equipment and other evidence that is used in the production of hash ...

Five robberies of cab drivers have police asking for public help in catching the suspects, according to a press release issued today by RCMP Sgt. Dale Carr. Surrey RCMP’s Robbery Unit is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying suspects involved in a series of taxi cab robberies that occurred this past month. Since...

Trail RCMP are dealing with a spate of vandalism to several different outdoor locations, according to Sgt. Mike Wicentowich. “On April 28, Trail and Greater District Detachment received a report from the City of Trail that the tunnel connecting Baily Street to Fifth Avenue, and the riverbank wall near Jubilee Park had been ...

Trail traffic was badly constricted for about an hour-and-a-half this morning after a three-vehicle incident on Second Avenue and Victoria Street (Highway 3B). Trail RCMP Cpl. Mike Wilson says the call came in at roughly 10 a.m. “Someone tried to make a left turn and got into a head-on collision. One of those two cars flipped...

Minor mischief led to some high drama near the Trail high school this afternoon, after police got a call reporting what may have been fireworks going off at 12:53 p.m. “The caller reported a loud, ‘bang, bang’ – which may have been fireworks, but could have been gunfire, so we had to proceed as if it might be (the latter),”...