2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (332+ words) An RCMP helicopter tracked a speeding motorcycle for officers on the ground during a traffic-enforcement blitz in Nanaimo last week, leading to the arrest of the rider and impoundment of the bike. Nanaimo RCMP said the rider was weaving through…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (246+ words) Nanaimo RCMP are warning about a scam targeting people who recently received new cellphones that they had purchased from legitimate providers. Police said they have received several reports of people obtaining a new phone through a promotion, then being contacted…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (173+ words) North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP say an active police search for a woman in the Mount Tzouhalem and Maple Bay areas has concluded. In a statement issued about 5:15 p.m., police there was no immediate safety risk to the public related to the…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (174+ words) Nanaimo RCMP are investigating two break-and-enters early Tuesday and Wednesday that occurred at Tim Hortons locations, with the same person possibly behind both. Nothing appeared to have been taken. Surveillance footage shows a masked male wearing dark clothing, gloves and…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (151+ words) Impairment is suspected in a single-vehicle crash Sunday morning in Parksville that sent a male driver and female passenger to hospital. The driver had the most serious injuries of the two. Oceanside RCMP said emergency crews responded about 7:10 a.m. to the…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (157+ words) Thousands of Victoria residents were without power on Monday after an SUV crashed into a power pole on Fort Street. The sight of a heavily damaged Nissan Rogue with its front wedged into a downed utility pole near the intersection…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (388+ words) West Shore RCMP is moving its public counter service as demolition of one of the detachment buildings in Langford approaches in October. Officers and staff will continue to operate from the Atkins Avenue location, but the site will not be…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (86+ words) Victoria police say a 74-year-old man suffered serious facial injuries Monday afternoon in an assault in Gorge Park in Esquimalt. Police responded to a report of an assault in progress about 1:15 p.m. in the park, off Tillicum Road. The victim was…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (929+ words) Five years after her brother was killed in their mother’s Rockland home, Alisa Gordaneer is losing faith that her family will ever have answers in what remains an unsolved homicide. Police have shared little about Jeremy Gordaneer’s death on Aug....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (579+ words) A prolific Nanaimo drug trafficker has started to turn his life around as a result of his involvement with the Guthrie program, defence lawyer Owen James argued in a sentencing hearing at Nanaimo Law Courts for Roger Ian Der on…...