The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died after a motor vehicle incident near Crescent Valley on Monday (July 7) as Jesse Edward Van Skiver Bachner, aged 28, of Crescent Valley.   Bachner was the driver and sole occupant of a pickup truck which was involved in an single-vehicle incident on Highway...

The residents of a home on Riverside Avenue got a nasty jolt Saturday night when an impaired driver drove into their house/carport, according to RCMP Cpl. Kelly Hall. "On July 5 at approximately 11:15 p.m., a Trail and Greater District RCMP officer was parked in the downtown Trail area when he observed a pick up truck travelling...

With the help of an excavator, representatives from the Province, Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB), local community and construction partners donned hard hats and officially broke ground today to celebrate the construction of the Okanagan Correctional Centre (OCC). The OCC project will act as a catalyst for the local economy and...

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died following a cliff-diving incident on Kootenay Lake near Gray Creek on (Monday) June 30 as Wyatt Earl Davidson, aged 25, from Riondel. Davidson and a friend were cliff-diving into Kootenay Lake from a cliff about 10 metres high during the afternoon of the...

A Crescent Valley man is dead after a car crash yesterday, according to RCMP Sgt. John Ferguson.   "On July 7, at 6:30 p.m., the Nelson RCMP Detachment and West Kootenay Traffic Services responded to a report of a single vehicle roll over crash on Highway 6, north of Crescent Valley. On attendance, investigation revealed a ...

The RCMP and the B.C. Coroners Service are investigating the death of a Grand Forks man on a logging road south of Revelstoke. Mark Douglas Dickson, 33, died at the scene of the accident when his motorbike hit a pickup truck travelling north on Crawford Forestry Service Road Friday (July 4). Crawford Forestry Service Road is...

The start of summer proved to be a busy weekend for Nelson Police as the department handled approximately 100 calls for service during the start of the Canada Day weekend. The most critical call involved a pedestrian being shot by an unknown assailant riding in a vehicle Saturday (June 28). Officers became involved in the […]

The BC Coroners Service has released the name of the man found dead in Cottonwood Creek Thursday morning at Lance Garry Sparks. The 52-year-old Sparks, most recently of Nelson, was found by visitors to Cottonwood Park submerged near the waterfall of Cottonwood Creek. The next of kin has been notified. The BC Coroners Services...

A call to the local Wal-Mart turned into Nelson Police shutting down a high-stakes Bonny-and-Clyde-like shoplifting ring in the Heritage City Tuesday (June 24). Nelson dispatch received the call at 2:45 p.m. from staff at the Nelson Wal-Mart that a female shoplifter was in custody. When officers arrived they found the woman was in the […]

The Sinixt spokesperson who was accused of  breaching an injunction prohibiting anyone from blocking a logging operation on Perry Ridge was found guilty of criminal contempt in BC Supreme Court Tuesday. Marilyn James was given a 14 day conditional sentence to be served at home for standing in the way of  Galena Contracting’s James Hascarl […]