A senior Langley RCMP officer has been convicted for the second time of assaulting a suspect, kicking him in the head while he was lying on the floor of a cell, according to just-released ruling from the B.C. Supreme Court. Justice Terence Schultes handed down his verdict on Nov. 26 last year, but it was […]
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A five-year jail sentence — one year more than the mandatory minimum — was imposed on a woman convicted of manslaughter with a firearm. Lona Lynette Cole, 53, learned her fate in BC Supreme Court in Quesnel on April 9, almost a year after Justice Marguerite Church found her guilty of killing her intimate partner,
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Police arrived to arrest an accused murderer at a Coquitlam residence in the week before last Christmas, and somebody flung a handgun and a bag of drugs and cash out a window. The Director of Civil Forfeiture recently filed a claim to keep cash recovered during that arrest of Alan Mohammed Taheri. Taheri, 31, is
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Newly released photos are highlighting the scale of a landslide that forced evacuations in Old Fort earlier this week. An evacuation order was issued for the Old Fort area following a landslide the evening of Monday, April 20. As of Wednesday, April 22, the evacuation order was still in effect, according to EmergencyInfoBC. The PRRD
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Another North Coast First Nation has added its voice to calls for a pause in the advancement of provincial legislation introduced last week to ratify a neighbouring nation’s treaty. Specifically, Gitxaala is urging the B.C. government to suspend second reading of Bill 21 “until its free, prior and informed consent can be given after protocol