Tag Archives: burns lake
Burns Lake RCMP release composite sketch of sexual assault suspect
Burns Lake RCMP are hoping someone can identify a suspect in an August sexual assault case. Police have released a composite sketch of the person investigators believe may be responsible. Mounties say...
Oct 23, 2019
Highway 16 open to traffic east of Burns Lake
The B.C. transportation ministry says Highway 16 is again open to traffic in both directions near Burns Lake. The road was initially closed after hydro lines come down across a section of the highway ...
Oct 02, 2019
Downed power lines close Highway 16 near Burns Lake
The B.C. transportation ministry says Highway 16 is closed in both directions near Burns Lake. Few details are available, but the ministry says hydro lines have come down across a section of the highw...
Oct 02, 2019
Strimbold sentencing shuffled to November
The former mayor of Burns Lake will return to court in two months to hear his sentence in a sexual assault case. Luke Strimbold's sentencing hearing was originally set to get underway September 23rd, ...
Sep 24, 2019
Burns Lake, Hagensborg to benefit from water treatment upgrades
Prince Rupert isn't the only community receiving federal and provincial infrastructure funding. The Village of Burns Lake will use $4.8 million in joint funding money for a new water treatment buildin...
Aug 27, 2019
Burns Lake RCMP investigating a sexual assault case
Burns Lake RCMP are investigating a report of sexual assault. Investigators say a 15-year-old girl was sitting on a bench at Radley Beach around 11:30 p.m. Thursday August 15 when an unknown man sat d...
Aug 20, 2019
Fresh funding will help 5 northwestern communities better prepare for wildfires
Another provincial funding injection will help bolster the northwest against the coming wildfires. Just over 265 thousand dollars will go to five local governments and First Nations within the Northwe...
Jul 11, 2019
Northwest housing sales dip across first half of 2019
Housing sales dipped across the Northwest through the first half of 2019, when compared to last year. In Terrace, sales dropped from 173 through the first half of 2018 to 134 this year. Prince Rupert ...
Jul 05, 2019
Burns Lake RCMP seize drugs and cash during arrest
Burns Lake RCMP seized drugs and cash during an arrest last week. Officers spotted a man they suspected of breaking his court conditions Thursday afternoon near Highway 16 and 5th Avenue. When officer...
May 13, 2019
Luke Strimbold pleads guilty to 4 charges of sexual assaulting underage boys
Former Burns Lake Mayor Luke Strimbold has pleaded guilty to 4 charges of sexually assaulting teenage boys. Strimbold, who served as Mayor of the community between 2011 and 2016, was facing 29 sex off...
May 06, 2019