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Two Castlegar residents have been charged with drug trafficking after a 2023  investigation Castlegar RCMP said in a media release Friday. RCMP said on May 18, 2023, the Castlegar RCMP’s Crime Reduction Unit, with support from frontline general duty officers, executed a pair of search warrants in connection with an active investigation into drug trafficking. […]

Selkirk College said the incident Thursday afternoon at the Silver King Campus in Nelson was the result of two acetylene gas tanks exploding. “Just after 1:30 pm on Thursday, February 8, two acetylene gas tanks exploded outside the North Trades Building on the Silver King Campus in Nelson,” the media release said on the Selkirk […]

The Mount Sentinel Secondary School Academy Performance and Media Academy (AcademyPM) has raised $8,500 from local businesses and organizations to pay for filmmaking kits for the unique, cross-curricular program that prepares students for a career in the film, theatre, game and digital media industry. The school’s goal is to raise $54,000 for nine complete film kits […]

School District No.8 (Kootenay Lake) has won an Award of Distinction 2023 BRAVO! Award from the Canadian Association of Communicators in Education (CACE) for its 2024-2029 Strategic Plan Engagement. The award recognizes and honours exemplary work in public relations, communications, marketing and engagement in school board communications across Canada each year. “It’s an honour to be recognized […]

An explorative response to the socially prevalent prompt that I and others are “too insignificant, arrogant, incapable or uninformed to truly make a difference”. Human Civilization is certainly a complex, nearly living, breathing organism spanning the entire planet in a multi-dimensional matrix of diverse networks of exchange,...

Surrey RCMP is relieved to update the public that the two children who were subjects of an AMBER Alert issued on July 19, 2023, have been located safely. On July 29, 2023, at approximately 7:20 p.m., the two children were located safe and are in the process of being reunited with family. “We recognize that many have...

In a media release Monday updating the Amber Alert of Wednesday, July 19, 2023, RCMP said that investigators have credible information to support the parental abduction of Aurora and Joshuah was pre-planned. RCMP said this information supports that Verity Bolton, Robert Bolton, Abraxas Glazov have moved “off the grid”...

Surrey RCMP issued an Amber Alert Wednesday, July 19, 2023, for Aurora Bolton and Joshuah Bolton, who left Surrey, BC, in the care of their mother on June 28, 2023, for a planned camping trip. RCMP said they were due to return to their father, who is their primary guardian on July 17, but did not return and were reported...

Surrey RCMP is releasing new images of Verity Bolton along with the truck and trailer she is believed to be travelling in. Verity Bolton is the mother of 8-year-old Aurora Bolton and 10-year-old Joshuah Bolton who are the subjects of the BC AMBER Alert issued July 19, 2023. Investigators have been able to confirm that ...

The BC SPCA is hoping you can help Poppy, a three-month-old Labrador retriever cross puppy who was found abandoned in a planter outside of the Alberni-Clayoquot community animal centre, terrified, exhausted and shivering. “This is a truly heartbreaking story,” says Sam Sattar, manager of the BC SPCA Alberni-Clayoquot...