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...

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...

Two men were charged for being drunk over the weekend in Christina Lake. The first man, a 30 year-old from Grand Forks, had been reported drunk and was kicked out of the Crow and Bear in Christina Lake on Saturday, July 14 at 11:24 p.m. Grand Forks RCMP later found the man driving a friend’s vehicle with a passenger. He failed...

Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers had a busy June seizing illegal weapons and turning convicted criminals away. Shot gun on back of bike stopped Border Services Officers (BSOs) at the Port of Carson in Grand Forks refused entry of a 12-gauge shot-gun an American traveller was carrying on the back of his motorcycle,...

BC Forest Service firefighters made quick work of extinguishing a forest fire caused by a lightning strike on a west facing mountain ridge at Christina Lake, Tuesday, June 10. The Wildlife Management Branch of the provinicial government was alerted to the situation when people in Christina Lake saw smoke rising from the ridge...

Grand Forks mayor Brian Taylor will be meeting with officials from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) after comments he made during his annual Canada Day speech this year. Taylor openly criticized the CBSA for being too tough on American tourists and locals, thereby making the border crossing experience a “frightening”...

One week into the official summer vacation and Grand Forks RCMP, with the help from reserve constable Chris Cottril, have written 37 warnings, charged one man with being under the influence of alcohol while operating a boat, cleaned up after one boating accident and ticketed a man with drinking at the Christina Lake Provincial...