A Clearwater woman has been handed a 10-year ban on breeding dogs commercially after she pleaded guilty to causing distress to animals in Kamloops Provincial Court on Friday, Nov. 21. Bonnie Milligan, born in 1952, was also sentenced to one year of probation. She pleaded down from two animal cruelty charges — causing unnecessary pain […]

An Alberta man who killed a man in Chilliwack in 2018 has been sentenced to life in prison. Harry Christensen pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on March 26, 2025, for killing 27-year-old Kyle Cromarty. The B.C. Prosecution Service confirmed with The Progress that Christensen was sentenced on Nov. 25 in B.C. Supreme Court in Chilliwack.

Residents at an encampment on school property in Princeton have been contacted by the school district and town staff. The incident occurred on Nov. 25. Ed Atkinson, manager of protective services for Princeton, said the Nicola Similkameen School District contacted the town for assistance in removing the camp. He said there were a few people

B.C.’s police watchdog has found that members of the Vanderhoof RCMP were not criminally responsible after a “vulnerable” Indigenous woman went missing in October 2023 and was found dead on Nov. 5 of that year. The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. (IIO) was tasked with deciding whether the RCMP could have done more to find

Police have found a Pitt Meadows resident who was last heard from on Nov. 25. Ridge Meadows RCMP issued a plea for the public’s help just before 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 26, to find a missing 48-year-old man from Pitt Meadows, who was last heard from a day earlier on Tuesday, Nov. 25. Police