A mix of alcohol, wind and rain led to the disappearance of a 56-year-old man on Slocan Lake Wednesday night — with search and rescue finding him Thursday morning. The man had set out on Slocan Lake on Wednesday evening around 7 p.m. from Silverton in a 14-foot aluminum boat with an electric trolling motor. […]

Following a lengthy bail hearing on June 22 at the Nelson Courthouse, a youth suspect charged in the May 15 sudden death of a 25-year-old Trail resident was released from custody on bail with strict conditions. The entire list of charges against the youth, whose name cannot be released, now includes: second degree murder, three […]

A 25-year –old Salmo man is facing a laundry list of charges after apparently trying to run people down with his car after a disagreement, according to RCMP Staff Sgt. Dan Seibel. Seibel said police responded to a call at about 11 p.m. on Saturday, and found a 1991 Chev Blazer that had crashed into […]

By Yoko Kubota, Reuters Japanese video game developer Sega Corp said on Sunday that information belonging to 1.3 million customers has been stolen from its database, the latest in a rash of global cyber attacks against video game companies. Names, birth dates, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords of users of Sega Pass online network members […]

The B.C. Criminal Justice Branch has put in place a team of professional Crown prosecutors who will work with police and lead all aspects of the prosecution related to the June 15 riot, Premier Christy Clark announced Friday. Evidence amassed in the coming weeks will determine the ultimate size and extent of the prosecutorial team […]

An open letter to British Columbians from Premier Clark British Columbians are understandably embarrassed and disappointed by Wednesday night’s activities. It should have been a celebration of the tremendous effort by the Canucks in their playoff run. It turned into a shameful display of behaviour by people bent on violence. The vast majority of citizens […]

A drug smuggling attempt failed when United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents seized five backpacks with 159 pounds of ecstasy at the Washington state border near Christina Lake last Friday.  CBP Public Information Officer James Frackleton explained that the seizure was a result of good coordinated tactical planning and utilization of advanced detection […]

Around 250 marijuana plants were seized by RCMP from two “sophisticated” grow operations in Salmo on Thursday. The investigation into the property began following a traffic stop in May of 2011 in which 21 marihuana plants and several pounds of marihuana were seized from two adult men in the Salmo area. Members of the RCMP […]

Ed note: The following is a press release issued by a lobby group, in which they name the Castlegar men who penned ‘Deflowered in Seconds’. I agonized over whether to publish these names … at first choosing not to, for fear of repercussions for myself and the young men involved. However, I now know this […]

Local police became the gurus of gross last weekend, after a local couple deposited a rotting corpse in the lobby of the Castlegar RCMP detachment.  Castlegar RCMP Cpl. Debbie Postnikoff said a couple came in at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday, after stumbling across a corpse in rural Castlegar. Believing the remains to be human, the […]