The Trail Allstars are 1-2 after Day three of the BC Little League 9-10 Baseball Championships. The Trail Allstars lost 11-1 to White Rock in five innings Monday at Andy Bilesky Park in the Silver City. Nelson's Noah Quinn drove home the only run for Trail with an RBI in the fourth inning. White Rock scoreed two in the first...

Swimmers were advised last week not to swim at Taghum Beach until further notice because of high fecal coliform bacteria (E. coli) levels. The reason this seems to happen every summer, according to Nicole Ward of the Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK), is a combination of large numbers of waterfowl especially geese, warm shallow […]

Like a "Heat wave . . .. Martha and the Vandellas made the song popular before Linda Ronstadt covered it in 1975. Now most of BC, including much of the West Kootenay region, is getting a first hand feel of the lyrics as a heat wave, partly due to warm air from the desert southwest of the United States, pushes into the British...

Coach Bill Park was pleased with the performances as swimmers from the Trail Regional Aquatic eXcellence (TRAX) competed in the Swim BC AA Long Course Provincial Championship Swim Meet held last month in Victoria. Park was impressed with all swimmers at the championships, including Kayla Fraserswam who achieved personal best times in all races. The […]

They say confidence is key. So confidence in our region must be paramount to its success. The Lower Columbia Initiatives Corporation is trying to increase just that. The corporation just began a four-month campaign which includes the release of a metric, or fact, in the first week of every month, in the hopes of keeping […]

The Trail Crime Reduction Unit is determined to prove the Mounties always get their man - or men, as the case may be.   RCMP Cpl. Darryl Orr is the non-commissioned officer in charge of both Trail and Castlegar CRUs, and he said his unit recently arrested two local offenders, one of whom police believe robbed the Spot Restaurant...

A Warfield resident is praising the quick minds and kind hearts of Castlegar residents after she was injured in a vehicular mishap last week. Diane Ross, 47, was driving up Sherbico Hill with her five-year-old daughter, Madison, onTuesday when her Land Rover started to overheat. "I pulled into the Husky gas station and lifted...

Police are asking for public assistance in solving an unusual crime - a theft from the dump. Castlegar RCMP Cpl. Debbie Postnikoff says the Ootischenia landfill was robbed on the evenings of May 18 and June 8. "The suspect stole roughly $1,000 worth of vehicle batteries," she said, adding the thief was caught on the landfill's...

A bizarre accident involving a horse-trailer west of Playmor Junction at Highway 3A/6 Friday afternoon resulted in no injuries said Nelson RCMP Cpl. Michael Stefani. The accident happened at approximately 4:08 p.m. Friday a truck towing a horse trailer saw the trailer dislodge from the vehicle, break away from its safety...

Chief Administrative Officer Brian Carruthers has resigned from his position with the Regional District of Central Kootenay less than two years after accepting the post. Carruthers is leaving the RDCK to assume the position of CAO for the Cowichan Valley Regional District in Duncan in early September. “I am pleased with the...