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Threat made on Snapchat against Vernon high school leads to charges
VERNON – Three youths are facing charges after making threats on social media. Police say…
Kamloops police, school officials continue to investigate secondary school threat
KAMLOOPS – After a threat was made at a Kamloops high school this week, police…
Victim of Peachland internet date kidnapping ‘begged for her life’
KELOWNA – While his duct-taped victim begged for her life, Jean-Francois Dufour drove around the…
UPDATE: Shuswap school bomb threat ‘unsubstantiated’
SALMON ARM – Police have determined a bomb threat phoned into Shuswap Middle School earlier…
Teen charged for prank bomb threat in Vernon
VERNON – A youth has been criminally charged in relation to a prank bomb threat…
No imminent threat of gang war in Kamloops: RCMP
KAMLOOPS – RCMP say residents of Kamloops should rest assured there is no threat of…
Fake sword shuts down Salmon Arm school and daycare
SALMON ARM – Calls about a male carrying a suspicious item led to a school…
Filmmaker hopes Okanagan mussel threat documentary will create ‘groundswell of public pressure’
VERNON - There may not be any zebra or quagga mussels in B.C. yet, but the threat is very real, and very urgent, says a Vernon man who spent months interviewing experts and visiting infested lakes and rivers in the U.S. All it would take is one contaminated boat getting across the border to destroy...
Alberta man charged with threatening WestJet flight in Kelowna
KELOWNA – A 35-year-old Alberta man, who is living in Summerland, is facing a number of charges in connection with a threat made to a WestJet flight in Kelowna on Saturday. At about 12:24 p.m., someone phoned in a threat regarding the flight scheduled to depart Kelowna for Calgary. Police still refuse to say what...
Police remain coy on details of Williams Lake murder
WILLIAMS LAKE – Police are not confirming or denying if suspects have been identified in the murder of a Williams Lake man despite suspicion of vengeance in the community. Corey Huu Le, 22, was murdered last month in a targeted event. When police followed up on a residential complaint, they found Le dead in his...