Part 1: Organized Crime and how police are keeping Nelson safe With seemingly more violent crimes like stabbings and ever-larger drug busts and cross-border seizures happening in the Queen City over the past year, The Nelson Daily was wondering, is organized crime present in Nelson and is it increasing? Nelson Police Department police chief Wayne […]

Silverton has a listed population of 195 people. However, B.C.’s second-smallest municipality looked more like the province’s biggest city after two adult males were stabbed during a targeted attack Sunday in Silverton. RCMP Staff Sgt. Dan Seibel of the Kootenay Boundary Regional Detachment said, “this incident is believed to be a targeted, not a random, […]

Update as of 4:17 p.m. Monday: Police say the two victims of an armed assault in a Silverton residence Sunday morning are both local males (names and ages have not yet been released). RCMP Staff Sgt. Dan Seibel said it appears that one of the two victims was known to one of the four alleged […]

A teenager in distress, a man failing to adhere to release conditions, squatters and the arrest of a man on a Canada-wide warrant kept Nelson Police officers busy as the department was swamped with more than 60 calls during the weekend. Teenager finds medication and alcohol not a good mix Friday (November 16) Nelson Police […]

RCMP confirm that three-year old Alvin Barnett has been located this morning, safe and sound. Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said on the RCMP website that Alvin Barnett was located Friday morning in Whitefish, Montana at around 7 a.m. MST., cancelling the Amber Alert. The break in the abduction case came as a result of a civilian […]

A 49-year-old American citizen, wanted in several states for sex offence parole violations, was arrested in Nanaimo early yesterday morning. Nanaimo RCMP, in consultation with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), received information the male was residing in the Nanaimo area. At approximately 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 14, officers attended a residence in south Nanaimo […]

RCMP is asking for help from the public after a 4X4 vehicle was destroyed by fire last week Kapak Road, approximately 20 kilometers north of Salmo. The incident happened on the night of (Tuesday) November 6 and the morning of (Wednesday) November 7. The driver of the 2001 Red Mazda 4X4 had been cutting wood […]

A 32-year-old woman escaped potentially life-threatening injuries when she was hit in a crosswalk late Friday afternoon at the corner of Victoria and Josephine streets in Nelson. Police received a 9-1-1 call from a witness at approximately 5:30 p.m. of a pedestrian being hit by a small pick-up truck near the Nelson downtown. Upon arrival […]

Police are requesting public assistance to get the facts regarding a hit-and-run incident on Halloween night in Fruitvale, according to Trail RCMP Sgt. Rob Hawton. “On Nov. 1, Trail & Greater District RCMP received a report of a pedestrian hit-and-run accident that occurred in Fruitvale the previous evening (Halloween night),” Hawton said. “At approximately 8 […]

A 27-year-old Castlegar man remains in hospital today with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, after an accident on Ooteschenia Road at roughly 4 p.m. on Nov. 6, according to Castlegar RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew.   “The driver lost control of his truck and flipped several times before crashing into the trees off road,” she said. “The driver was ejected […]