UPDATE: Following several reported sightings by Westbridge residents,  Wesley John Feist, missing since Monday, Aug. 20, was located on Christian Valley Road in Westbridge.  Feist had walked away from his Westbridge, B.C. home and was apparently staying in outbuildings in this area, said Staff Sgt. Dan Seibel of the Kootenay...

Volunteers will be busy over the next few weeks working out how to repair a TransCanada trail gate that vandals destroyed in late July. Sometime shortly after the devastating windstorm at the end of July, vandals used heavy machinery to literally pry a 500 pound cement block and gate out of the earth at the trail head in Eagle...

Nelson Police were busy this B.C. Day holiday weekend as the local force responded to more than 80 calls from intoxicated people to a man stealing tip money to thief helping himself to items from a parked car. Alcohol gets the best of two soon to be bride and groom Late Sunday night, Nelson Police members were called to the...

A 71-year-old Christina Lake woman’s body was recovered by helicopter this morning from the Cascade Falls gorge after dying from injuries sustained when her raft was dragged over the falls by the current on Saturday afternoon. The woman’s body was trapped in an eddy just below the first steps of the falls along the Kettle...

One person is dead and two more are missing after the raft they were floating in went over Cascade Falls near Christina Lake Saturday afternoon. There were four people in the raft on the Kettle River when they neared the falls and attempted to reach shore. A 16-year-old boy jumped from the raft and was able to swim to the...

A new provincial regulation aimed at stopping copper thieves in their tracks has scrap metal dealers doubtful. The new law came into effect yesterday, Monday, July 23, requiring the more than 60 BC scrap metal dealers to ask for and record the identification of anyone selling high-value metals like copper to them. That...

Human waste, unattended fires and toxic litter often accompanies seasonal squatters in the Boundary. It happens every year -- people who are down on their luck set up house along a river bank or in the bush to save themselves rent and utility costs while the weather is good. Their activity may seem harmless enough but it is...

A gay couple from Vancouver was awarded over $4500 for discrimination in a  B.C. Human Rights Tribunal decision yesterday after being refused Grand Forks accommodations in 2009. The decision, by Tribunal member Enid Marion, found that Les and Susan Molnar, operating the Riverbend Bed and Breakfast business at the time, were...

Cranbrook RCMP is investigating a series of incidents were a male was observed peering at women through the windows of their homes.   The incidents were reported, Saturday, July 14th, between 12:15 and 2 a.m. by three separate women. In two of the incidents, it is believed that he was fondling himself. When one woman went...

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identities of two men who died when a privately owned aircraft crashed near Vernon airport on Saturday (July 7) as James Langley, 59, of Kelowna and Karim Makalai, 53, from Port Moody. The pair was killed when the twin engine Piper PA-23, owned and piloted by Langley, crashed shortly...