A Vincent van Gogh painting has gone missing from the Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo, Egypt. The painting, which was cut from its frame, goes by the name “Poppy Flowers” or “Vase with Flowers” and is valued at approximately $50 million. The work was previously believed to have been recaptured from an Italian couple at Cairo airport, but Egypt’s culture minister […]

 There are now three Facebook groups and an online petition with almost 1,000 signatures, all dedicated to saving the bears found at a Christina Lake grow-op last month. (See EXCLUSIVE: Interview with officers who raided bear-protected grow op; The Castlegar Source, August 2010).   The online petition says this: “Police involved in a Canadian drug […]

The fate of up to 15 bears who were being fed by a woman in Christina Lake, possibly as guards for a grow op, is in the hands of nature. The woman involved with the July 30 marijuana bust on her property has been feeding bears for years. Neighbours near her residence have often been […]

 Fifty-year-old Castlegar woman Robin Mackay appearing in court today facing the charge of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing her 73-year-old father repeatedly with a kitchen knife Sunday morning.  Mackay was remanded in custody until Aug. 31, and will appear via ‘video link’ at Provincial Court in Nelson.   “At (about) 12:15 a.m., Castlegar RCMP received […]

A group of officers from the RCMP Integrated Road Safety Unit say nothing surprises them anymore – except this story.  In a true Kootenay interpretation of Jurassic Park meets Jellystone Park meets NYPD Blue, officers from the RCMP and Nelson Police Department executed a search warrant on a rural property near Christina Lake, and were […]

 China's economy surpassed Japan's during the second quarter of 2010, and now is the second largest world economic power. China's economy already is larger than Japan's in the fourth quarter of most years, and many expect that the world's most populous country will soon cement its place as the world's second largest economy...

Since April 28 of this year, Trail has been inundated with a rash of vandalism to vehicles that involved a chemical being sprayed on them that stripped the paint. The areas hit included Glenmerry along with East and West Trail. In the early hours of August 13, a General Duty member noted a suspicious person on Topping Street […]

 According to a new study, US girls are reaching puberty earlier than ever, a trend that raises some health concerns. The study, which was conducted in New York's East Harlem, the Cincinnati metropolitan area and the San Francisco Bay area, showed that by age eight, 27% of girls had begun puberty and showed breast development....

 A 73-year-old Castlegar man is in Trail hospital after being repeatedly stabbed early this morning, according to police. “At (about) 12:15 a.m., Castlegar RCMP received a report of an elderly adult male being the victim of a stabbing incident within his residence,” said Staff Sgt. Dan Seibel. “RCMP attended the 800block of Sixth Avenue (and […]

The Provincial Animal Health Centre has confirmed that a dead crow from the Central Okanagan area has tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV). This is the first positive case of WNV in a crow ever in B.C. and the first evidence of any WNV activity in the province this year. To date, there have […]