A recent Facebook post requesting sleeping bags for the Castlegar homeless shelter got a massive response from readers who were unaware the city had a shelter at all. Community Harvest Food Bank president Deb McIntosh said the shelter has actually been operational for more than a decade now, and explained it doesn't get much...

Despite the marijuana-loving reputation of the citizens of Nelson, the City of Nelson itself is taking a stance against the proliferation of illegal marijuana operations. City council passed the first two readings of amendments to a bylaw Monday night at its regular meeting which, once adopted, would effectively prohibit any...

Finally, a normal month on the calendar. Ron Lakeman at the Southeast Fire Centre Weather Services said September was a "near normal" month.  "The mean monthly temperature was within 0.1 of a degree of normal (while) the monthly rainfall was 89% of normal," Lakeman said. Lakeman said a broad upper trough of low pressure allowed...

The Selkirk College Saints will raise another British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) banner to the rafters of the Castlegar & District Recreation Centre on Saturday night, but the focus for this year’s group of student athletes will not be on the past. The Saints captured a fourth straight provincial title...

The sale of the Trail Smoke Eaters BCHL hockey team will be a fantastic boost for the community, according to Smoke Eaters president Tom Gawryletz. Despite the tremendous support of the Trail Smoke Eater Society, public volunteers and its staff, the future of the community-run hockey team remained uncertain, until now. The ...

The flood of sirens and police cars descending on lower Gyro Park concluded with the arrest of man for assault Friday afternoon said a Nelson Police media release. "A local man was arrested and charged with assaulting police, resisting arrest and obstruction after an incident in the lower Gyro Park area," said Acting NPD...

Mount Sentinel staff took no chances, evacuating the school Friday morning after the smell of a suspicious odor began to filter through the South Slocan-based High School. The Kootenay Lake School District Twitter account said the school was “evacuated due to smoke from unknown source.” The Nelson Daily has learned the...

To The Editor: October 1st is the United Nations-declared “International Day of the Older Person.” The theme this year is ageism, a prejudice that the UN describes as the most socially-normalized form of discrimination worldwide. The term was coined in 1969 to describe a form of discrimination based on age. Since this time,...

The City of Castlegar was one of six communities to receive Community Recognition awards from Wood WORKS! BC at the annual Union of BC Municipalities Convention in Victoria this week, in honour of the Celgar Pavilion at Millennium Park. "We congratulate these six local governments for their visionary initiatives which resulted...

A public open house next month will be one of the final steps in seeing user-pay water and sewer services in Castlegar, as water-meter installation in the city nears completion. Director of Transportation and Civic Works Chris Barlow says the city is nearing the end of a process that involved roughly 2,700 homes and has been...