Selkirk College Saints Capture Third Straight Win
If the Selkirk College Saints are successful in capturing their fifth straight British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) title, this season they will need to do it on the road. The four-time defending league champions won both weekend games against the University of Victoria Vikes at the Castlegar & District...
West Kootenay curlers come up short at BC Seniors Championships
The phrase, “Three Strikes You're Out” is generally association with the game of baseball. However, Sunday in Salmon Arm, the phrase took on a whole new meaning for the Rob Koffski rink of Kelowna. The rink whiffed on the final chance at capturing the 2017 BC Senior Men’s Curling Championships, losing 8-4 to Craig Lepine...
Trail swim team makes TRAX at province-level meets
TRAX Swim Club swimmers recently competed in the following Swim BC-sanctioned Swim Meets: Snowfest Swim Meet in Kelowna and Swim BC AA Provincial Swim Meet in Chilliwack....
Captain Hunt sinks Rebels in extra time to power Leafs to Game one victory
The Nelson Leafs continued a late-season surge, getting an overtime marker on the power play in the fourth extra period from team captain Sawyer Hunt to edge the Castlegar Rebels 3-2 in Game one of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League Murdoch Division Semi Final Thursday in the Sunflower City.
Selkirk College Saints Stand Up to Bullies
The Selkirk Saints men’s hockey team is joining Pink Shirt Day as part of a province-wide effort to raise awareness about bullying in schools, arenas, workplaces, homes and over the internet. The student athletes are trading their jerseys for t-shirts and will be joining other Selkirk College students on Feb. 22 (Wednesday) in this important […]
Selkirk College Saints Return Home for Stretch Drive
With four games remaining in the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) regular season, the Selkirk College Saints are in an unfamiliar late-February position of looking up in the standings. After a rocky start to the second half of the season, the Saints quest for home-ice advantage in the looming post-season...
The speediest Rossland bobsleds: Updated
We have received more accurate information about the bobsled crash that injured a spectator and two sled team members. Earlier reports from witnesses had indicated that the spectator was obeying the rules, but in fact, she was in a prohibited area and had previously been asked to leave it. Here is the release sent out ...
End of an era — Nelson Cyswog'n' Fun has run its last race
For the past three decades during the August BC Day weekend, Nelsonites have witnessed people jumping into Kootenay Lake by the hundreds, biking on the North Shore's Highway 3A before running across and back the Nelson's BOB (Big Orange Bridge). However after 34 years of the Nelson Cyswog'n'Fun, the race committee has decided...
Canadian skier Julien Locke cruises to Korean National’s Sprint title
Julien Locke of Nelson it sitting in a pretty nice position on the eve of his first World Cup Cross Country race set for Feb 3-5 in PyeongChang, Korea. The BlackJack/Nelson Nordic Club racer won the Korean National’s Sprint at the Alpensia Resort. Locke won the 1.8 kilometer sprint race Tuesday (January 24) in a time of...
Fundraiser to Save Kinnaird Bluffs
For the first time ever the Cube Climbing Centre and The Association of West Kootenay Rock Climbers (TAWKROC) have joined forces to bring the annual Reel Rock film tour to Nelson, British Columbia. The event, which showcases five rock climbing and mountaineering films from around the world, will be held at the Civic Theatre...
