Vancouver Rundown Wednesday August 6, 2025

Those attending one of B.C.’s most notable music festivals continue to be targeted by RCMP. Numbers released by the Mounties show 800 violation tickets were handed out to drivers during multiple road checks along the mountain passes leading to the Shambhala festival near Salmo in the West Kootenay. Another 83 people got drug-impairment charges. Almost half the tickets were for speeding but nine were for excessive speed, 11 for no insurance and 11 for unsafe vehicles. This is not the first year festival goers received tickets - last year, hundreds more were caught.