This building didn't always stand at its current location. When it was built in the late 1920s as the headquarters for Burns Lake's B.C. Provincial Police building, it stood on the other side of the alley on Fourth Avenue. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police moved in after B.C.'s provincial police force was disbanded in August 1950, and this building remained the detachment's headquarters until August 1957, when a new brick structure was built. The old police station sat empty for a time, and was then moved to its current location on Third Avenue. The Lakes District News bought it in the late 1970s and had it declared a heritage building.