On Aug. 23, Nakusp and Slocan Lake RCMP took down a large outdoor marihuana grow operation. The grow op was located on Crown land near McKean Road in Winlaw. The three adult male suspects were arrested on scene, attending to the plants. A total of 657 plants were removed as well as a significant amount […]

 Police got to see evidence of the other Big Bang theory in Greenwood last week, as the execution of a search warrant uncovered dynamite, a grenade and several loaded weapons. “It should also be noted that the residence had a surveillance system set up with a live camera view of the front gate/yard area onto […]

 A Vincent van Gogh painting has gone missing from the Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo, Egypt. The painting, which was cut from its frame, goes by the name “Poppy Flowers” or “Vase with Flowers” and is valued at approximately $50 million. The work was previously believed to have been recaptured from an Italian couple at Cairo airport, but Egypt’s culture minister […]

 There are now three Facebook groups and an online petition with almost 1,000 signatures, all dedicated to saving the bears found at a Christina Lake grow-op last month. (See EXCLUSIVE: Interview with officers who raided bear-protected grow op; The Castlegar Source, August 2010).   The online petition says this: “Police involved in a Canadian drug […]

The fate of up to 15 bears who were being fed by a woman in Christina Lake, possibly as guards for a grow op, is in the hands of nature. The woman involved with the July 30 marijuana bust on her property has been feeding bears for years. Neighbours near her residence have often been […]

 Fifty-year-old Castlegar woman Robin Mackay appearing in court today facing the charge of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing her 73-year-old father repeatedly with a kitchen knife Sunday morning.  Mackay was remanded in custody until Aug. 31, and will appear via ‘video link’ at Provincial Court in Nelson.   “At (about) 12:15 a.m., Castlegar RCMP received […]

A group of officers from the RCMP Integrated Road Safety Unit say nothing surprises them anymore – except this story.  In a true Kootenay interpretation of Jurassic Park meets Jellystone Park meets NYPD Blue, officers from the RCMP and Nelson Police Department executed a search warrant on a rural property near Christina Lake, and were […]

 China's economy surpassed Japan's during the second quarter of 2010, and now is the second largest world economic power. China's economy already is larger than Japan's in the fourth quarter of most years, and many expect that the world's most populous country will soon cement its place as the world's second largest economy...

 The City of Castlegar will be undertaking a traffic study for the stretch of Columbia Avenue near First Street after an application for a temporary work permit opened a largely-unrelated can of worms. City councillor Kirk Duff said visibility issues along that thoroughfare have long been problematic, but the permit application...

 Airport manager (and fire chief) Gerry Rempel said residents need not be alarmed if they see flashing red lights on the mountainsides surrounding Castlegar. He said the lights will indicate the testing of the airport's new beacons, a million-dollar project that will soon, hopefully, allow for nighttime departures from the ...