The Beaver Valley Nitehawks will play the Kelowna Chiefs for the big prize in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. The Hawks booked a ticket to the KIJHL Final by stopping the Fernie Ghostriders 6-2 Friday in Fruitvale to capture the Kootenay Conference Title in five games. The Chiefs needed a little heroics but also […]

It didn’t take the coaching staff of the Selkirk College Saints Men’s Hockey program to dust off the recruiting brochure. The Saints announced this week the team has landed a commitment from forward Cole Thomson of Duncan to join the squad in the fall for the 2012-13 B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League season. Thomson joins Selkirk […]

The RCMP has confirmed the identity of the two people who were buried and killed in an avalanche near Nelson March 21: Katie Aring, a 32-year-old Salt Lake City woman and Ryan Keene, a 31-year-old man from London, England. The RCMP has completed next of kin notifications with the families. At around 10 a.m. on […]

Nitehawk goalie Mike Vlanich had a bounce-back game, stopping all 29 shots to backstop the Beaver Valley to a 2-0 Kootenay Conference victory over the host Ghostriders in Game four of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League Playoff series Wednesday in Fernie. Vlanich was in goal in Game two, the only win to date for […]

Nelsonites Jenna Wheeldon and Emma Hare each score twice to lift the West Kootenay Wildcats into the win column at the B.C. Hockey Female Bantam Championships on Vancouver Island with a 5-4 victory over South Island Royals. The win improves the record of the Cats to 1-2. However, the record is not good enough for […]

The Beaver Valley Nitehawks had the power play motoring on all cylinders in Game three of the Kootenay Conference Finals. The Hawks scored three power play markers to double the Ghostriders 4-2 in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League playoff action Tuesday in Fernie. Beaver Valley takes a 2-1 lead, and regains home ice advantage, in […]

The playoff run of the Kootenay Wildcats came to an end Saturday as Fraser Valley Phantom completed a two-game sweep in B.C. Hockey Female Midget AAA Hockey semi final series. The Phantom, regular season champs, finished off the Cats with a 4-3 win at the Langley Sportsplex. Fraser Valley won the opener of the best-of-three […]

Connor McLaughlin spent a few seasons getting kicked around by the Beaver Valley Nitehawks as a member of the Nelson Leafs hockey club. Sunday night in Fruitvale McLaughlin got a little revenge. The Arizona native scored twice to lead the Fernie Ghostriders to a 6-3 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League playoff victory. The win squares […]

Columbia Power has donated $1500 in support of the 2012 West Kootenay Fly Fishing Symposium in Castlegar Saturday and Sunday. This Saturday and Sunday, March 17th and 18th, the West Kootenay Fly Fishing Symposium will take place in Castlegar at the Castlegar Complex. Hosted every year by the West Kootenay Fly Fishing Club, this is […]

There’s no way Justin Niminiken wanted his junior hockey career to end in the Murdoch Final. The 21-year-old Nelson native scored the winning goal with three minutes remaining, snapping a 3-3 tie to send the Beaver Valley Nitehawks into the Kootenay Confernece Finals with a 5-3 game seven victory over the pesky Castlegar Rebels Thursday […]