Tag Archives: Crime & Courts

MIRROR, Alta. - RCMP ticketed protesters leaving an anti-lockdown rally outside a central Alberta caf Saturday, after the establishment was closed by health officials earlier in the week.Despite pouri...

Ronald Smith sounds tired. Despite good news last month, when a bill to resume executions in Montana was unexpectedly defeated, the Canadian on death row in that state is in a sombre mood. Smith, orig...

NANAIMO - A once-trusted employee busted for funnelling $70,000 from an Errington sawmill into her own bank account is serving her sentence at home with strict conditions.Renee Patricia Merkel, 43, wa...

Editor's Note: This story contains details of animal abuse. Reader discretion is advised.NANAIMO - A man trusted with dog-sitting while his neighours were out of the country instead beat their beloved...

NANAIMO - A confrontation at Departure Bay beach escalated into a police chase and high-risk takedown of a man who repeatedly threatened to kill multiple RCMP officers.Matthew Douglas Janzen, 35, was ...

EDMONTON - The trial of an Alberta pastor accused of not following public health orders meant to curb the spread of COVID-19 is to begin today.Pastor James Coates of GraceLife Church spent a month in ...

UPDATED - Police have located Glenn Gustafson safe and sound.- - - EARLIER - NANAIMO - A search is ongoing for a missing 56-year-old man who police say should not be approached.Glenn Gustafson was las...

NANAIMO - Telephone scammers only need one person to fall for their scheme to make it worth it. A Nanaimo senior was such a case, losing $27,000 to a telephone scam where she was convinced she'd won u...

NANAIMO - Forging cheques and opening fraudulent bank accounts in the name of Nanaimo residents has led to a house arrest sentence. Dustin Frederick Knechtel was sentenced at provincial court in Nanai...

MISSOULA, Mont. - An Alberta man is awaiting a next court date in Montana after he was detained by American authorities for allegedly crossing the border in a kayak. The U.S. Department of Justice say...