Crime & Courts

Latest arrests in Tiki Laverdiere homicide investigation appear in court

Carol Laverdiere and Diane Morin sat beside each other as the latest pair charged in Tiki Laverdiere's homicide investigation made their first court appearance. Carol is Tiki's mother and Diane is the...

Aug 02, 2019

RCMP investigate after man shot in foot in Battleford

For the second time this week, officers are investigating after a home was fired at in Battleford.RCMP said in a press release they were called to a home on the 300 block of 28 St. at around 12:30 a.m...

Aug 02, 2019 (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Mother of man whose funeral Laverdiere attended now charged in her homicide

Tiki Laverdiere attended the funeral of Tristen Cook-Buckle on the Thunderchild First Nation in the days before her death. Now, Cook-Buckle's mother Nicole Cook, 36, is charged in Laverdiere's homicid...

Aug 01, 2019

‘He wanted to talk:’ Saskatchewan woman recalls finding Mountie killer in field

SPIRITWOOD, Sask. - For a Saskatchewan woman who discovered a fugitive Mountie killer hiding in her family's hayfield more than a decade ago, the intense search for two young murder suspects in northe...

Aug 01, 2019 (Submitted photo/Canadian Press)

Fired Saskatoon cop found not guilty of arrest assault

A former Saskatoon cop is looking to get his job back after a judge cleared him of assault on Tuesday.Cheers erupted in the courtroom after Justice Richard Danyliuk found Jarrett Gelowitz not guilty o...

Jul 31, 2019 Jarrett Gelowitz arrives for Saskatoon Court of Queen's Bench. (Global News)

RCMP scaling down search for murder suspects in northern Manitoba

WINNIPEG - The RCMP are scaling back the search for two British Columbia murder suspects in remote northern Manitoba.Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy said over the past week officers have searche...

Jul 31, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Twitter, Manitoba RCMP, @rcmpmb

Driver runs down antelope in lentil field, removes antlers

Conservation officers are investigating after an antelope was run down and killed in a lentil field early last week.On either July 22 or 23, a driver drove into a field of standing lentils and chased ...

Jul 31, 2019 Antelope run down in lentil field east of Stranraer (supplied photo/Sasktip.com)

RCMP investigate early morning shooting in Battleford

Officers are investigating after a home was shot at in Battleford in the early morning hours of July 31. Around 1:30 a.m., RCMP were called to a home on the 400 block of 33 St. and confirmed it was sh...

Jul 31, 2019

Police following tip that B.C. homicide suspects were seen in York Landing, Man.

Police are following up on a tip that two B.C. homicide suspects were seen southwest of Gillam, the northern Manitoba community that has been the focus of their search since last week.RCMP posted an u...

Jul 28, 2019 Officers look through a remote lake area alongside a landed helicopter in the Gillam, Man., area in July 28, 2019, police image published to social media. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Twitter, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, @rcmpmb)

RCMP getting air support from military in hunt for homicide suspects

The RCMP are getting some help from the Canadian military as they continue the hunt for two young homicide suspects in northern Manitoba. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale tweeted last night&n...

Jul 27, 2019 Military air support arrives for manhunt in Manitoba. (Manitoba RCMP)