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...

A sexual assault in downtown Trail in the middle of the afternoon this weekend saw police identify and arrest a suspect within hours of the incident, according to RCMP Sgt. Rob Hawton. “On Sunday …at approximately 1:50 p.m., a young lady in her late teens was sitting on a bench on Cedar Avenue in Trail, when she was approached...

A logging truck sideswiped a minivan after losing control on the slush that covered Highway 3 around the Mud Lake area – just east of the Paulson Bridge – at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, July 3.  “That was ugly weather,” said Trail RCMP sergeant Rob Hawthon. “(The bad weather) was not unusual but not to that extent. You’re at a pretty...

A 33 year-old woman from Rock Creek was ejected through the sun roof of her car after hitting the ditch, Monday, July 2 at 7:37 p.m. Highway 3 was closed for two hours while ambulance and Midway RCMP attended the accident on Highway 3, two kilometers west of Midway. The woman had been driving her 2006 Pontiac GC west when she...