I’ve reported on a great many elections – federal, provincial, municipal – and there’s a kind of tried-and-true newspaper approach to candidate coverage. The reporter interviews the subject for perhaps a half-hour or hour, then writes it up in their own words and the result gets published. It occurred to me, this year, that...

The onus for waste is shifting and West Kootenay folk have a say in how that happens. In one year the producers of packaging and printed paper in B.C. have to create a stewardship program for the collection and recycling of their end-of-use products. On Oct. 14 the not-for-profit agency, Multi-Material BC, was in Nelson […]

The NDP is demanding BC Hydro stop paying lavish executive bonuses, following an auditor general’s report that revealed that the Crown corporation actually ran a $249 million deficit last year, the CBC reports. NDP leader Adrian Dix says at a time when Hydro is looking at ramping up rates for customers, the current bonus system […]

It’s a scene that many people in the Kootenay region are familiar with: bears gorging on fruit and garbage. But a situation in Elkford, about three hours east of Nelson, has a pair of rare white bears cubs and a young black bear cub involved, the CBC reports. The bears have become a nuisance in […]

A Trail woman is suing her adult children for parental support, the CBC reported early Wednesday. Shirley Anderson won the right to have her case heard in B.C. Supreme Court, after three of her children applied to have the matter dismissed. Justice William Ehrcke ruled Tuesday Anderson’s case for parental support can be heard, but […]

Three Kootenay residents are injured and remain in hospital after losing control of their truck on Highway #3 east of Christina Lake yesterday. A 65-year-old Robson man was transported directly to the West Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital in Trail. The 50-year-old woman and 48-year-old man, both from Castlegar, were transported by ambulance to the Boundary […]

A 6.4-acre chunk of very popular, but once private, Slocan Valley land was donated to the people of the Regional District of Central Kootenay at the Oct. 20 regular board meeting. Crescent Valley Beach is a popular summertime recreation area used extensively by residents and tourists for swimming, rafting and kayaking. Area H Director Walter […]

Occupy Nelson is going to occupy the Scout Hall on Cedar Street for a community meeting Thursday beginning at 7 p.m. “This meeting is a chance for the community to come back together and start discussing how we want to move forward,” said Kendra Cooper from Occupy Nelson in an emailed press release to The […]

By Deena Stryker in SACSIS.An Italian radio program's story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt.  The reasons were mentioned only in passing,...

Boundary area residents who need assistance when travelling to medical appointments will be able to get there easier with the new volunteer driver program. Interior Health is pleased to announce it has entered into a contract with the Boundary Hospice Association to offer a formalized program in the region. “Volunteers are the heartbeat of our […]