The passenger involved in the crash between a motorcycle and pick-up truck on June 1 near Salmo has been released from Trail hospital, according to RCMP Sgt. Darryl Little.   “The 22-year-old Trail resident has some significant injuries to her back and pelvis, but is expected to make a full recovery,” he said. “The male […]

A Fruitvale man in his late 70s is lucky to be home safe, according to RCMP Sgt. Rob Hawton. “On June 7, shortly after midnight, a Fruitvale resident reported her elderly husband had been missing for approximately eight hours,” Hawton said. “He was last seen going for a walk toward the railroad tracks. Being away […]

I’ve had Doukhoborism on my mind lately. A number of months ago I was asked if I would put some thoughts together about the modern day relevance of St. Peter’s Day (or Petrov Dien) for inclusion in the Canadian Doukhobor Society newsletter. I was happy to say yes as over the past few years I’ve been thinking more and more...

Highway 6 from Slocan City to Vernon checked in at No. 5 on the 2013 Top-10 BCAA (British Columbia Automobile Association) Worst Roads survey. The survey was conducted between April 29 to May 27 allwong motorists, pedestrians and cyclists to participate. For the second year in a row, Kelowna’s Westside Road earned top spot. Potholes […]

Castlegar New Vision Housing Society is currently seeking funding for a $1.6-million project that could help rejuvenate the downtown core while providing affordable housing for singles, city council heard at its regular meeting Monday evening. Society spokesman Dan Sahlstrom told council that Columbia Basin Trust and BC Housing...

Members of CUPE Local 748 will be on the picket lines Monday outside Hume Elementary in Fairview after serving strike notice to the Kootenay Lake School District No. 8. “We’ve reached an impasse, both locally and at the provincial level,” CUPE Local 748 president Michelle Bennett told The Nelson Daily Thursday. “This job action won’t […]

The signs on both sides of the Beasley bluffs, 12 kilometers west of Nelson on Highway 3A, were errected to give warning to drivers of unexpected icy conditions on the four-kilometer section. The new technology can detect ice crystals forming on the dangerous stretch of road, sending a message to the signs at both entrances […]

I think, in the six years I've been here, I've only criticized city council twice. Not because they're my buddies, or I'm afraid they'll get mad at me, but rather because I've found them to be very capable, and I largely agree with the direction in which they're guiding our city. At Monday night's regular council meeting,...

An extremely well preserved woolly mammoth has been found by Russian scientists in Siberia, announced Wednesday. The adult female was found with blood preserved still intact in ice cavities. When palaeontologists excavated the animal, blood flowed from the space below the animal’s abdomen. The discovery was made on the Lyakhovsky Islands by scientists from the […]

Research by the Canadian Red Cross shows the majority of Canadian parents do not understand what is needed to safeguard children in, on and around the water, even though drowning is the second leading cause of preventable death for children under the age of 10. Statistics reveal 90 percent of children killed due to drowning […]