Category Archives: British Columbia
Surrey Mounties appeal to public after 911 call about woman firing gun on street
SURREY, B.C. - Surrey RCMP are asking for the public's help after receiving a single 911 call reporting a woman had fired a gun on the street. Mounties received the call just after 6 a.m. Sunday repor...
Apr 24, 2016
'Staggering' number of drivers ignore law
RCMP in the Okanagan are concerned with the high number of drivers who are not heeding signs to "Slow Down and Move Over" for stopped vehicles with flashing lights. Officers conducted an operation nea...
Apr 23, 2016
Human rights body awards Victoria cop $20,000 in drug advocacy case
VICTORIA - A Victoria police officer who advocates for the legalization of drugs while off-duty has been awarded $20,000 in a human rights case that pitted the nine-year veteran against his employer. ...
Apr 23, 2016
B.C. pedophile promises change, apologizes to victims in Cambodia
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A British Columbia man notorious for making child pornography where his face was obscured with a swirl apologized in court Friday to his victims in Southeast Asia and said he w...
Apr 23, 2016
Man charged with assault for allegedly punching Vancouver bus driver
VANCOUVER - A man has been charged with assault following an attack on a Vancouver bus driver. Transit police say the assault happened Tuesday evening on the 99 B-line, when a man who had reportedly b...
Apr 23, 2016
Police investigating suspicious death on B.C.’s Salt Spring Island
SALT SPRING ISLAND, B.C. - Police are investigating the death of a man on Salt Spring Island, B.C. RCMP say officers responded to reports of a fight early Friday morning and found two men performing C...
Apr 22, 2016
Man dead after dispute between two inmates at Port Coquitlam, B.C., jail
COQUITLAM, B.C. - Police say a man has died following an altercation between two inmates at a jail in Port Coquitlam, B.C. RCMP were called to the North Fraser Pre-Trial Centre on Sunday when staff re...
Apr 22, 2016
Double bogey for alleged drunk driver
CHASE, B.C. - RCMP officers got a surprise when they were checking out an accident scene near Sorrento earlier this month. On April 4, Mounties rolled up to a rollover on the Trans Canada Highway near...
Apr 22, 2016
CP to allow rafters to cross railway tracks to get to world-class rapids
GOLDEN, B.C. - Rafters wanting to get to world-class rapids on the Kicking Horse River in southeastern British Columbia will be allowed to cross land belonging to Canadian Pacific Railway. CP had anno...
Apr 22, 2016
Lawyer tells B.C. court child sex offender should be released on time served
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - More jail time is unnecessary for a notorious British Columbia pedophile who obscured his face behind a swirl in photos of himself abusing boys in Southeast Asia, his lawyer ar...
Apr 22, 2016
