Crime & Courts

Alberta RCMP apologize for poor investigation into Indigenous woman's death

EDMONTON - The commanding officer of the RCMP in Alberta has apologized to the family of an Indigenous woman who disappeared nine years ago and whose killer has never been found.Amber Tuccaro was 20 y...

Jul 25, 2019 Amber Tuccaro

Police seek B.C. murder suspects in swamp, bush, bugs of northern Manitoba

The deputy mayor of a remote northern Manitoba town says residents are locking their doors earlier than usual after word of a police manhunt in the area for two suspects in the deaths o...

Greg Fry Jul 24, 2019

Two teens thought to be missing now suspects in 3 northern B.C. deaths

VANCOUVER - RCMP say two British Columbia teenagers who were first thought to be missing are now considered suspects in the deaths of three people in northern B.C. Sgt. Janelle Shoihet says 19-year-ol...

Jul 23, 2019

Crime rate rose in 2018 but country still safer than a decade ago

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country's crime rate ticked up again in 2018, for a fourth year in a row, though it was still lower than it was a decade ago.The severity of crime also rose by two ...

Jul 22, 2019

Defence calling no evidence in case of German tourist shot west of Calgary

CALGARY - The defence is calling no evidence on behalf of a youth accused of shooting a German tourist in the head on a highway west of Calgary last summer. The teen from the Stoney Nakoda First ...

Jul 18, 2019

Two found deceased on Highway 20

BRITISH COLUMBIA - Two adults were found deceased on the Alaska Highway 20 kilometers south of Liard Hot Springs. Police would like to speak to anyone that may have travelled this stretch of highway b...

Jul 17, 2019

Resident Charged with child pornography

PRINCE GEORGE - Earlier this month the Prince George RCMP received a report of child pornography that had been located at Prince George residence. An investigation was conducted by the police. The Ser...

Jul 17, 2019

Police investigation shutting down Hart Highway

PRINCE GEORGE - VIDEO UPDATE: One-shot was fired by an RCMP and two suspects were arrested around 11 this morning. Prince George RCMP located a suspect vehicle on the Hart Highway near Noranda road, t...

Jul 17, 2019

Interviews with family of highway shooting victim heard in Calgary court

CALGARY - The trial of an Alberta youth accused of firing a gun at a German tourist on a highway west of Calgary is having to rely on police interviews done with the family after he was shot...

Jul 17, 2019

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman sentenced to life in prison

NEW YORK - The Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been sentenced to life behind bars in a U.S. prison, a humbling end for a drug lord once notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or t...

Jul 17, 2019