A dressing down of a City bylaw officer landed a man in jail Thursday afternoon. The 31-year-old Nelson man took umbrage around 4 p.m. with a bylaw officer who had approached him about a parking infraction. The male began to verbally abuse the female officer using offensive, degrading and profane language.  He then threatened violence […]

This morning was a weird one for Trail RCMP, involving sunburns, violence and full-frontal nudity, all in the space of about two hours. Trail RCMP Cpl. Mike Wilson said EMS (ambulance services) got a call at roughly 1:20 a.m., from a man who was in pain from sunburn. Apparently, the man warned dispatchers that the […]

A Castlegar man in his 60s is facing sexual assault charges after a bizarre incident on Columbia Avenue Friday. According to RCMP Cpl. Deb Postnikoff, a 24-year-old woman attended the Castlegar police station Friday at about 5 p.m., reporting that a man she didn’t know had approached and accosted her. “Apparently he invited her to […]

The report of the June 15 Vancouver Stanley Cup Playoff Riot was tabled today by its authors, Douglas J. Keefe, QC and John Furlong, OC, OBC.   Entitled “The Night the City Became a Stadium: Independent Review of the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup Playoffs Riot”, the report and its 53 recommendations are the first comprehensive independent […]

Bike thieves beware, Operation Hands Off is deploying bait bikes throughout the Kootenays in a joint effort with Nelson Police and the RCMP to crack down on bike theft. Bait bikes will be deployed in many popular locations. The bikes are equipped with tracking devices and hidden cameras to record the theft. “Thieves can be […]

It was a hot time in Salmo last Tuesday. On Aug. 16, Salmo RCMP were dispatched to a report of four youths starting a fire with gasoline at a gazebo in KP Park. The fire was put out by a crew working in the park at the time, and the youth were located within minutes […]

A knife-wielding woman broke into a Victoria Street home Friday night and threatened the home’s two occupants. The woman allegedly entered the home, smashed a bottle and threatened the two people with a knife. Although one of the people was able to call the police, when they arrived the woman had fled and they were […]

Squatters are believed to be the blame of a small fire that occurred in the early afternoon of Friday, August 19 west of Nelson near the CPR tracks. The fire was caused as a result of an abandoned campfire near a squatter’s camp. Members of the Beasley Fire Department, at the time assisting the 2011 […]

 A 26-year-old Castlegar man will be facing charges after police raided a grow-op believed to be worth about $700,000, according to Castlegar RCMP Cpl. Darryl Orr.   “On Aug. 17 at approximately 12:30 a.m., the Castlegar Crime Reduction Unit, along with Castlegar General Duty members, executed a search warrant issued under the Controlled Drugs and Substances […]

For the parents, and siblings of Australian Owen Rooney, every day is a painful reminder that he is still missing one year after his mysterious disappearance from Grand Forks, B.C.  “It’s always there – it never really feels normal. A huge part of you is missing and you don’t know where he is or if […]