Kootenay Lake is not the only place in BC having to deal with a decline in fish stocks. CBC News is reporting there could be a potentially catastrophic collapse of the sockeye salmon run on the Columbia River system this year. Okanagan Nation Alliance fish biologist Richard Bussanich said latest predictions are now thought ...

A concerned woman staged a one-person protest against the BC Government's wolf kill Monday afternoon at the Park and Ride outside Nelson. The woman, who wanted to remain anonymous, held up signs to passing motorists saying, "Stop the War on Wolves" and "Wolves are Tortured to Death". Earlier this year, the province announced...

Heritage BC, a charitable non profit, announces the opening of registration for their annual conference, taking place October 2-3 in Rossland, B.C. This year’s conference, ‘The Main Thing’ follows on the national Heritage Week theme promoting main streets as an vital part of heritage conservation and economic stimulation. Come learn how to create a dynamic […]

This year, the annual Toadfest event will be held on Wednesday August 12th, from 4:00 – 7:00 pm at Summit Lake Provincial Park, south of Nakusp. The warm spring and recent hot weather has the annual migration of toadlets start earlier than has ever been seen before, and the toadlets are already on the move. The […]

Mother Nature is making life a lot easier for BC Wildfire firefighters battling the Sitkum Creek Interface Wildfire north of Nelson. Thanks to recent rains and an effective burnoff — July 18 — the wildfire is now 90 percent contained, allowing the Southeast Fire Centre to relax an area restriction order. "An Area Restriction...

Fire crews were called out at roughly 5:50 a.m. on Monday to deal with reports of black smoke emanating from the gravel pit on Woodland Drive, according to fire chief Gerry Rempel. “We arrived to find a vehicle on fire,” he said, adding it was fully engulfed in flames. “We put it out in short order, but the vehicle was...

City of Nelson Memorial Cemetery staff arrived to work Friday morning to find that vandals pushed over a handful of grave markers during the night. Nelson Police were called to the Uphill-based cemetery to investigate the vandalism. Police found that vandals had pushed over the grave markers in the Anglican section of the...

Interior Health and Nelson Police Department are urging residents using or thinking about using drugs to think twice in the wake of at least four critical drug overdose cases in Nelson over the last three months. “This is my third year in Nelson, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Dr. Nic Sparrow, emergency department...

The region gets to experience what RCMP Cpl. Darryl Orr calls a “rare happy ending,” in a local missing persons case that went on for more than a week. “It is with great pleasure the Trail & Greater District RCMP announce that the exhaustive investigation and search for missing person Gavin Ballard, aged 23 years, has...

Since Monday, July 20, the BC Wildfire Service has responded to 81 new wildfires in the Southeast Fire Centre. All but five of those fires were lightning-caused. Ground crews are being supported by helicopters and airtankers as they work to contain and extinguish the fires, with 39 of them already out or contained. None of ...