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An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday (Dec. 29) in Vancouver to determine how 20-year-old Cooper Plaxco of California died after getting stuck in a creek while snowboarding on Blackcomb Mountain Christmas Eve. Whistler RCMP Staff Sgt. Steve LeClair
According to a new survey released by the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch, 3.7 million litres of liquor was sold during the 2011-12 fiscal year from BC Liquor Stores in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District. This equates to an average of $967 spent
White Rock native Ben Trompetter was being remembered this week as a "free spirit" who lived life to the fullest as investigators try to determine the exact cause of his death in Anderson Lake on Friday (Aug. 17). RCMP recovered the 26-year-old's body
Search and rescue personnel and Whistler RCMP are still looking for a missing woman this afternoon (Sunday, Aug. 7) after an incident on the Cheakamus River yesterday. Staff Sgt. Steve LeClair of the Whistler RCMP said a helicopter is flying over the river searching for the woman and kayakers are also in the water, which has been described as "treacherous." There was still no sign of the woman as of noon
David Christian, the 27-year-old Whistlerite who was reported missing earlier this week, was found dead in a creek on the Fairmont Chateau Whistler Golf Course yesterday (Wednesday, March 21). Christian's body was recovered from the Horstman Creek late yesterday afternoon, said Whistler RCMP Staff Sgt. Steve LeClair in a media release. There was no sign of foul play and observations at the scene suggest death by hypothermia. "This was not the outcome we'd hoped for," LeClair said. "Police are saddened...