Stolen guns, seasonal check stops and slick roads made a busy start to the holiday season for Grand Forks RCMP.   Stolen guns and a suspicious person   A break and enter and a suspicous incident left police looking for answers on Nov. 24.  The first was a break and enter at 12:12 p.m. into […]

Dignitaries and local residents gathered to celebrate the ground breaking at Grand Forks’ newest seniors housing development, Silver Kettle Village, on Tuesday.   Boundary-Similkameen MLA John Slater was joined by Grand Forks Mayor Brian Taylor, Golden Life Management’s CEO Endre Lillejord and Interior Health Authority (IHA) representatives in the ceremonial ground breaking for the residential […]

Alex Atamanenko, MP (BC Southern Interior), was joined at a press conference today by fellow peace advocates, along with Elizabeth May of the Green Party and Liberal Jim Karygiannis to herald the introduction later in the day of his Private Members Bill to create a federal Department of Peace. May and Karygiannis are co-seconding the […]

A study by the University of Washington that looked at people in their late teens in the Pacific Northwest has reached two conclusions: that teenagers may be able to reliably recall the time of their first suicide attempts, and that depressed youth tend to try to kill themselves at a much earlier age than previously […]

This post is part of our special coverage of Egypt Elections 2011.   Egyptians are voting in parliamentary elections on November 28 and 29, 2011, and despite calls for a boycott, it seems that most people have chosen to participate. Not all of Egypt votes on these dates; the elections are staggered across three stages, […]

Solicitor General Shirley Bond had this statement Wednesday regarding the B.C. Supreme Court decision on Immediate Roadside Prohibition (IRP) legislation: “Today, Justice Jon Sigurdson issued a decision on the constitutionality of B.C.’s Immediate Roadside Prohibition program and substantially upheld the program, saying that this is “validly enacted provincial legislation.” The court did find that for […]

A decision to cut at least six jobs from BC Hydro’s Columbia Basin Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program (FWCP) in Nelson must be rescinded, says the city’s MLA. Michelle Mungall said on the last day of the Fall Legislative session that the Minister of Energy and Mines needed to reconsider cuts to BC Hydro that will […]

The Province of British Columbia has reached agreement-in-principle with Public Safety Canada regarding a new contract for RCMP services in British Columbia.  The proposed agreement reflects a new partnership based on transparency and mutual benefits. It contains greater financial accountability and measures to monitor and contain costs over time. Through a new proposed Contract Management […]

It seems Steve Archdekin is going faster backwards than forwards. Which is why The Nelson Daily jumped on the Archdekin bandwagon to help the Beasley resident achieve his goal of running a race for a dying friend. “I need to sell another 18 shirts before Friday to pay for my gas (to Spokane and back), […]

A passenger died after being thrown from a truck he was travelling in when it lost control on slippery roads today. 72-year-old Jacob Giesbrecht of Grand Forks was not wearing his seatbelt when he was ejected from the truck as it slid off the road and died as a result of his injuries. The driver […]