A request for bail was adjourned pending a psychiatric assessment for accused arsonist, Christopher James Cusack. Cusack, a 47 year-old Grand Forks resident, appeared in the Grand Forks courthouse yesterday, Tuesday, March 20. He faces two counts of arson endangering life in connection with the fires at the Grand Forks Hotel and the Winnipeg Hotel […]

A man has been taken to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital in Trail after being struck by a passing vehicle on Granby Road in Grand Forks last night, Monday, March 19. Grand Forks RCMP were notified of the accident at 8:45 p.m. The incident happened about one kilometer North on the Granby Road. According to […]

Despite St. Patrick Day falling on Saturday and Nelson’s downtown core being extremely busy, Nelson Police Department had a relatively light weekend responding to 51 calls between Friday and Monday. Some incidents reported include NPD responding to a domestic dispute in progress in the 400 block of Baker Street Friday. When police arrived they found […]

The RCMP Integrated Border Enforcement Team (IBET) busted what is believed to be the second largest grow-op in the Southern Interior of the province earlier this month in South Slocan. IBET officers, in partnership with the Central Kootenay Regional Detachment in Nelson, executed a Controlled Drug and Substances Act search warrant at a residence west of […]

Grand Forks resident, Christopher James Cusack, 47, has been charged with two counts of arson endangering life in connection with the fires at the Grand Forks Hotel and the Winnipeg Hotel in the early morning hours of Wednesday, March 7. Within two hours of the fires being reported, Grand Forks RCMP had Cusack in custody and...

Too much alcohol turned into a threat and a court date for a 22-year-old Lardeau resident Wednesday in Nelson. Just before midnighta group of males patrons were asked to leave a local drinking establishment in Nelson. After some debate, the group slowly left the pub, but once outside more words were exchanged between staff and […]

Grand Forks RCMP have a suspect in custody for arson as another heritage landmark, the Grand Forks Hotel built in 1909, burnt to the ground last night. “Given the suspicious circumstances of the fires we are not releasing anything about the suspect at this time,” said Grand Forks RCMP Staff Sergeant Jim Harrison. At about […]

RCMP report and internet / telephone scam is making its way around the Village of Nakusp. Police report a Nakusp citizen recently applied for and was offered a job to be a Mystery Shopper for Winners Merchants International L.P.  The citizen was sent a cheque and they were asked to cash it at a local […]

RCMP in Castlegar is conducting a full investigation into a damaged Fortis BC fiber optics cable on right-a-way near a substation next to the Tarry’s Fire Hall across from Kalesnikoff Lumber at 2103 Highway 3A. Sometime in the past few days a coiled fiber optics cable attached to the side off of a power pole […]

Even police are describing an arrest in Nelson this afternoon as “bizarre”. “On Monday afternoon, Nelson Police responded to a report from a woman of an intruder in her Fairview residence,” said Nelson Police Department’s Sgt. Howie Grant. “When officers arrived on scene they found a 21-year-old Nelson man sitting at a computer desk in […]