Nelson RCMP are warning the public about a telephone fraud scam making its way in and around the region. The scam has victimized at least two elderly local residents over the past two weeks totaling $4000.       The scam starts by receiving a telephone call from a person who claims to be a distant […]

Bears,liquor stores heists and bumper cars bouncing off buildings were just some of the 75-plus calls Nelson Police Department officers responded to during the weekend. Driver plays bumper cars with building In the early hours of Saturday (June 8) morning staff at a local drinking establishment saw a vehicle strike the corner of the building […]

A relaxing night in a travel trailer quickly turned into a nightmare for a man in the early hours of Monday in Kamloops. Approximately 1 a.m. Monday (June 10) Kamloops RCMP was contacted by a man reporting the trailer he was in, attached to his truck, had been just stolen. The truck and trailer were […]

Members of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit took down a second underground grow-op in the Fraser Valley in less than a month. Four people — three men and a woman — were arrested Saturday when officers dismantled the marijuana operation found in five shipping containers buried under a fake farmyard near Langley. A loaded […]

A 33-year-old Trail man is facing a laundry list of charges after an altercation yesterday, according to RCMP Sgt. Rob Hawton. "On June 3, at approximately 11:30 a.m., police responded to a complaint of a male attempting to pull a female from a vehicle during an argument, which occurred on Bay Avenue in Trail," Hawton said....

Friday morning at approximately 11 a.m. emergency crews from the Tarry’s, Beasley, Castlegar and Crescent Valley Volunteer Fire Departments as well as RCMP and B.C. Ambulance responded to a two-vehicle accident minutes from Mount Sentinel High School. The call came in that two vehicles with six teenage passengers collided, ending up in the ditch at […]

British Columbia’s Police Departments are combining their efforts in making homes across BC safer by declaring a province-wide Gun Amnesty during the month of June. The program, endorsed by the BC Association of Chiefs of Police, runs from June 1-30. During this time, residents of BC will be able to safely dispose of unwanted, documented […]

Nelson City Police, with help from RCMP detachment, charged a 37-year-old man for breaking and entering after a house was burglarized. NPD was made aware of the burglary when a Nelson man attended his mother’s house, finding the residence had been broken into Monday (May 27). Officers, with assistance of RCMP identification section, immediately opened […]

A Castlegar man will be facing charges after being arrested Saturday, according to RCMP Cpl Darryl Orr. “On May 25 at 12:25 a.m., members of the Castlegar Crime Reduction Unit (CRU) arrested a 47-year-old  male for Possession of Cocaine for the Purpose of Trafficking under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act,” Orr said. “The male […]

Nelson Police dealt with a series of calls the weekend as the public enjoyed the first long weekend of the summer. The calls ranged from man unlawfully in Canada to drug seizures and officers involved in a foot chase through the streets of Nelson to catch a naked man. Downtown chase leads to arrest of […]