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Given the way motorists roar along Parkcrest Avenue, it's a miracle none of the four teens hit by an SUV driver was killed, parents and police said Monday. "We see people go up and down Parkcrest all the time. It's the drunken highway," said Nadia Tahara. "They don't slow down and there's kids everywhere. They're always on bikes, running. They are everywhere." Tahara's daughter, Victoria, 12, was playing with the group of six young people about an hour before the blue Jeep Cherokee sped from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints parking lot and skidded int...

Selling drugs three different times to an undercover officer will cost a man 10 months in prison. Mitchell James Nesbitt, 20, pleaded guilty in B.C. Supreme Court Monday to three counts of trafficking cocaine. The man sold drugs to undercover officers in June 2010, as well as in January and February of 2011. Nesbitt has a criminal record for breaching court orders, the judge was told. Justice Richard Blair said Nesbitt is a young man who now has a serious stain on his record. "You are only 20 years old, and you have three trafficking convictions," said Blai...

Photograph By Murray Mitchell Barricades once again bar access to the McArthur Island nature trail and at least one trap has been set following further incidents involving a mother bear and her three cubs. RCMP Staff Sgt. Grant Learned said the barricades went up at about 2 p.m. Wednesday in an effort to keep people away from the bears, which have been spotted in the area for weeks. "People shouldn't be walking down the particular trails in the areas where the bears are known to be," said Learned. The animals' presence is disturbing to some peopl...