Suspicious death inside residence in Kelowna
Kelowna RCMP are investigating the suspicious death of a 21-year-old man found dead on a couch Saturday morning after a house party. About 20 people attended the party Friday night at a home in the 1300-block of Ethel Street, with all people known to each other. The victim had some sort of altercation with his […]
Body recovered in tragic rafting accident
The body of 54-year-old Wade Brunelle was recovered this morning after a summer rafting trip turned tragic last night. Brunelle fell from his raft into the river east of Grand Forks about 100 metres from the confluence of the Kettle and Granby rivers in deep water. He was rafting with his brother who lost […]
Search teams search to locate missing river tuber
Search teams worked frantically Sunday night for a missing tuber from the Kettle River. Fire Chief Blair MacGregor was on site directing teams working alongside the Grand Forks Search and Rescue as the RCMP oversaw the operation. Volunteers lined the banks and bridges of the river south of where the Kettle meets the Granby looking […]
Bear death tally rises at Christina Lake
Four bears euthanized so far this year at Christina Lake can’t be identified as being part of the group of “drug” bears found last year at a local grow op, according to ministry staff. Kootenay region Inspector Aaron Canuel of the Ministry of Environment says the bear situation at the Lake is fairly normal for […]
Police nab Bobbitt
As a result of a tip from an alert resident, David Wesley Bobbitt was arrested by the Oliver/Osoyoos RCMP without incident early Wednesday evening. Bobbitt was located and arrested as he walked along Hwy 97 near Osoyoos BC. At about 6 p.m. Aug. 3, a local orchardist just south of Oliver noted an individual setting up camp...
Local dad says LG "joke" no laughing matter
To the editor: Let me begin by saying this letter is addressing the enablers… the ones who turn a blind eye to something theyd rather not be aware of. When a situation is worthy of being top national news, it should be just that … not what has happened in our town regarding the abuse […]
Cops arrest known sex offender in Penticton
RCMP in Penticton immediately located and arrested known high risk sex offender Ronald Teneycke on Aug. 1 after receiving a report of a sexual assault made by the victim who managed to flee from her assailant, late Sunday night in OK Falls, BC. The Penticton RCMP received a call from a frantic woman from an Ok Falls...
Update: 'Armed and dangerous' man thought to be in West Kootenay caught in Osoyoos
The RCMP got their man, David Wesley Bobbitt, Wednesday thanks to an alert orchardist just south of Oliver. RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said Bobbitt, 35, was trying to set up camp on the orchardist’s property when the owner approached the Penticton man and asked him to leave. “Following the conversation between the two, the […]
Phone and computer scam has NPD issuing warning to Nelsonites
Another phone scam is ringing in the ears of Nelsonites — this one with cyber twist. A computer and telephone fraud scam is currently plaguing the Nelson area, with fraudsters posing as company representatives cold calling people to tell them that — for example — their computer is running slow or has viruses. They then […]
Public assists police in apprehending alleged drunk driver
Photo: The broken trees and grass where the truck went over the embankment. According to RCMP Cpl. Deb Postnikoff, “To get the full effect one must really go to the top of the hill and look down…his journey through the dense wood, though the field and then driving into the house is amazing. It is […]
