While dealing with a small group of males drinking in public on Saturday night, a Nelson Police Department officer was assaulted by one of the males.  The male, identified as a 31-year-old from Chilliwack, was subsequently taken into custody and appeared in court on July 12 in Nelson Provincial Court facing charges of assaulting a police officer, […]

 Police are asking for the public’s help in finding the people responsible for a break-in at Bubblee’s Liquor Store  around midnight last night, according to RCMP Cpl. Dan Pollock.   “The culprits smashed a window to gain entry to the business … located at 651 18th Street,” he said, adding police responded to the call […]

The body of missing Creston woman Lana Chipesia was found Monday morning in the Goat River, several kilometres from where her car was found submerged two weeks ago. Using an RCMP Southeast District Air Services Helicopter from Kelowna, Creston RCMP searchers located the body of Chipesia downstream from the initial vehicle crash site near the […]

Cpl. Paul Voisine died in a recreational scuba diving accident last week. Voisine,along with five other divers was at the artificial reef near Snake Island off Vancouver Island and was off-duty at the time. During the dive Cpl. Voisine was located unconscious on the deck of the sunken vessel, HMCS Saskatchewan. Immediate efforts were undertaken […]

Four Nelson men have been charged with sexual interference in four separate cases involving girls as young as 12, according to Nelson Police Department Sgt. Paul Burkart.   “Over the past seven months, Nelson Police Department has investigated a number of complaints that involve sexual relations between young girls and older teenage or young adult […]

There could be a second victim claimed by the swollen and swift moving waters of the Goat River, RCMP said Friday. The woman who went missing from Creston almost two weeks ago and the tragic death of the Ymir search and rescue volunteer are also connected, Creston RCMP revealed. Police confirmed the vehicle recovered from the Goat River […]

Never mess with a man’s beer. After one man stole a full can of beer from another Monday night, a fight broke out in the lane behind the Hume Hotel. The man who stole the beer pulled out a folding knife and slashed the other man twice, once on the right hand and then on […]

Three out-of-town men are finding their visit to Castlegar yielded less than the promised Happily-Ever-After, after being arrested in what appears to have been a botched burglary attempt at Martech Electrical Systems Sunday.  According to RCMP Staff Sgt. Laurel Mathew, Martech had been the victim of break-and-enters twice already this month, on June 14 and 24, […]

Police are asking for help to locate a truckload of tires valued at over $40,000 that was stolen from the Grand Forks Kal Tire shop. The break-in took place on Thursday, Jun. 23 sometime during the night and the thieves made off with numerous new and re-tread tires. “The outside fenced compound had been broken […]

Chilliwack RCMP have shut down a Compassion Club that advertised medical marijuana but was allegedly planning to peddle hash oil and drug-laced lollipops. The Be Kind Medical Clinic, complete with doctors and a pharmacist, had a business licence but was open only two days before RCMP obtained a warrant. Investigators located a marijuana hashish lab […]