Grand Forks RCMP will be questioning a suspect they think may have been involved in the bomb scare at the Grand Forks Credit Union last week. Grand Forks RCMP evacuated 37 staff from the credit union and everyone within a 300-foot circumference of the bank all day on Wednesday, Oct. 3 after a suspicious briefcase […]

The mother of a four-year-old child faints.  The child is the only other person at home.  He calls 9-1-1.  Paramedics take the mother to hospital.  She recovers and rejoins her family. Such a simple scenario that could have gone so wrong. Brad Mitchell of BC Ambulance Service was the charge dispatcher on duty several months […]

This happy-go-lucky chocolate brown labrador turned in his long leash and protective vest this August, marking nine years of dedicated service with the BC RCMP as a drug sniffing dog. Otis was posted to the Southeast District Traffic Services between 2003 to 2012, working the corridor highways of the Interior region of BC. Otis worked […]

Local conservation groups are applauding news that the East Kootenay Conservation Program (EKCP) now includes the West Kootenay. This geographic expansion means that the renamed umbrella organization – now the Kootenay Conservation Program (KCP) – will forge new partnerships and help focus activities around private land conservation in both the East and West Kootenay. “For […]

Going the wrong way down a street in the Heritage City cost a Calgary man more than just a traffic ticket. RCMP charged a 37-year-old Calgary man with Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking and Property Obtained by Crime after a routine traffic stop netted police 1.3 pounds of cocaine, scales and other drug paraphernalia. […]

The Owl Mountain fire just south of the Carson border crossing near Christina Lake doubled in size last week as a result of winds and continues to grow. The fire, started by lightening on Sept. 10, is moving both north and south as it finds fuel in deep rocky crags and chutes along the mountain. […]

The BC Coroner Service has released the name of a four-year-old boy killed in an ATV accident west of Nelson Sunday. He was Isaac Robert Zukowski, of Castlegar. The Zukowski family has been notified. The Coroners Service extends its condolences to the family and friends of this young boy. Previous story: Few details are being […]

Award-winning spoken word poet, Shane Koyczan, is embarking on a solo tour this fall. For Koyczan, 2012 has already included a residency at Glenbow Museum in Calgary and the release of Remembrance Year with his band The Short Story Long. The tour kicks off in Banff with a stop November 3 at the Element Club […]

Okay, it’s time already to break up the Selkirk Saints. Defenceman Lucas Hildebrand scored at 33 seconds in the extra frame to give the visiting Saints at 5-4 B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League overtime victory over the University of Victoria Saturday night at the Ian Stewart Complex in the provincial capital. The win was the second […]

A Slocan Valley man has more on his plate than just surviving a car crash. The man has now been arrested for Break Enter and Theft and Possession of Stolen Property after the vehicle that crashed into a power pole early Thursday morning was allegedly stolen . “Police investigation confirmed that the vehicle in question […]