Police have confirmed that the fire that took a residence at Christina Lake on Monday was not arson. Staff Sergeant Jim Harrison of the Grand Forks RCMP detachment told the Sentinel today that the fire started at the Piche property at 1833 Haaglund Road in a pile of wood and newspaper located 15 meters from the home. When the...

Grand Forks RCMP are treating a fire that burned down one home, one unoccupied log house and several outbuildings at 1833 Hagglund Road in Christina Lake as suspicious. The property and home, owned by the "Bear Dude" Allen Piche, is "nothing but a smoking hole in the ground", said Grand Forks RCMP staff sergeant Jim Harrison....

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...

ABH Car Sales in Grand Forks is a car short after a man took a white 2009 Pontiac Vibe for a test drive and never returned. Grand Forks arrived on scene Saturday, August 4 at 5:25 p.m. "The man took the vehicle out for a test drive and was only going to be gone a few minutes but never returned the vehicle," said Grand Forks...

A 50 year-old Grand Forks woman has been charged with failure to yield to right of way after she struck a vehicle at the intersection of Highway 3 and Granby Road. Police were called out to the accident scene, located east of the bridge, on Tuesday, July 24 at 10:06 a.m. The woman, who was driving a 2004 gray Honda Accord, ...

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...

Cash, a Toshiba desktop computer and 60 (3.79 litres) one gallon cans of Cloverdale Paint in a variety of colours was stolen from First Impressions Flooring, Wednesday, July 18. Grand Forks RCMP were called out to the 3rd Street business at 9:47 a.m. that day after the break and enter was discovered. Entry appeared to have ...

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...