BREAKING: Mount Sentinel School evacuated after serious threat
SD8 Superintendent Jeff Jones has issued a letter regarding a "serious threat" to the safety of Mount Sentinel School students and staff, thus cancelling all grad ceremonies and activities this weekend, and cautioning parents and students to be "extra vigilant" with regard to any grad activities, parties and events where...
Coroner reports significant increase of fentanyl-detected overdose deaths in Castlegar, Nelson, Trail
Of the 55 fentanyl-detected overdose deaths recorded in the past two-and-a-quarter years in the Interior Region, two have been in Castlegar, one in Nelson, and one in Trail, according to a report released today by the BC Coroner Service (the data is from Jan.1, 2014 to April 30, 2016). In the two years prior, 2012 […]
Credit Union accomplice sentenced at Nelson Courthouse
The accomplice in the robberies of Nelson and District Credit Union and Kootenay Currency Exchange was sentenced to almost five years in jail in Nelson Supreme Court. Krista Kalmikoff, 28, who was convicted of five of six counts for her part in the robberies that rocked the Heritage City in April of 2014, was given a sentence...
No serious or fatal accidents during Victoria Day weekend
Sergent John Ferguson, Acting OIC for the South East District Traffic Services-East said in a media release there were no serious or fatal accidents in the Kootenay Boundary during the Victoria Day Holiday weekend. "The roads were very busy but with a large presence of enforcement and the rainy weather, the motoring public ...
DeGroot shooting now oldest open IIO investigation
An officer-involved fatal shooting dating back to Oct. 13, 2014, has now become the oldest open investigation being handled by the Independent Investigations Office of BC (IIO). (For coverage of the shooting, click here). The sixth-oldest open IIO investigation is also local, after a fatal shooting on Kinnaird Bridge in...
Fire department sees people courting wildfire locally
Despite the terror and devastation wreaked by wildfires (most of them human caused) in Western Canada of late, it appears some people just aren't getting it. The Pass Creek Fire Department got the call at 10:48 a.m. Saturday that there was a fire up along Verigin's Tomb Road. “If you go up to the very end of the road, there's...
String of break ins plaguing Uphill concerns Nelson Police
A string of thefts in the Uphill district of Nelson is raising alarm bells at the Nelson Police Department. Sergeant Nate Holt said in a media release Saturday, the string of break ins began in late April. "Since April 23, 2016 the Nelson Police Department has been monitoring a series of residential Break and Enters to homes...
BC Coroner releases fatal drug overdose statistics
The BC Coroners Service has posted the most recent statistics on illicit drug overdose deaths in B.C. to its website. The total number of illicit drug overdose deaths in B.C. to April 30, 2016, is 256. This represents an increase of 88.2 per cent from the 136 deaths that occurred in the same period last year. Fentanyl was...
Pedestrian struck by vehicle in Nelson downtown
The center of downtown Nelson was blocked off to traffic for almost an hour after a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle in the crosswalk Wednesday in the 400 Block of Baker Street. The pedestrian was hit by a gray van while walking across in the lane shortly before noon. Nelson Police, Nelson Fire Department […]
Police seek public assistance after early-morning robbery Friday
On May 6 at 4:27 a.m., Castlegar RCMP responded to a robbery at a business on 6th Avenue in Castlegar. Two male suspects took an undisclosed amount of cash from an employee leaving work. The victim was not injured during the robbery. The investigation is ongoing and further details relating to the incident are not being ...
