Nelson RCMP continue to investigate the Sunday evening break and enter of the Gold Island Forest Products in South Slocan. Nelson RCMP Constable Bill Long told The Nelson Daily police believe information will begin to come in from the public soon. Long said the two suspected, believed to be local to the area, broke into the...

The public got an early taste of winter during September according to monthly weather details from the Southeast Fire Centre Weather Service. The winter bite came during the middle of the month when the thermometer dipped below freezing. “New record daily minimum temperatures of -1.1 and -0.7 degrees  (Celsius) were recorded during the early morning […]

I don’t think having a criminal record should discourage anyone from running for public office. What?!?! you say? Yes, I just said that. If you smoked pot when you were 18, got busted, and now are in your 40s or 50s and being productive and helpful, I’m more likely to vote for you – making bad decisions is an excellent way ...

A 57-year-old Trail resident is in hospital in Kelowna after being hit by a car (driven by another Trail resident) while on his bicycle, according to RCMP Cpl. Devon Reid. "At approximately 8:23 p.m. on Sept. 30 ... there was an accident at the intersection of Glover Road and Highway 3B in downtown Trail where a cyclist was...

A Slocan Valley woman has laid private information against Executive Flight Centre and the provincial government over the jet fuel spill into Lemon Creek in July of 2013. Longtime environmental activist Marilyn Burgoon says if the provincial government won’t prosecute the Alberta transportation company for dumping 33,000...

Selkirk College staff and students are inviting the community to join them for a celebration barbecue that will mark five decades of quality trades training, career programs and community education at Nelson’s Silver King Campus. An education cornerstone in the region since 1964, the campus opened as the BC Vocational School...

The Insurance Cooperation of BC (ICBC) claims department was busy fielding calls from irate owners in Nelson after an alleged impaired driver played bumper cars with parked vehicles in the late hours of Friday (September 26) in Lower Fairview. Residents living on Maple Street behind Canada Safeway were alerted to the sounds of vehicles being […]

RDCK Directors attended the Union of BC Municipalities convention in Whistler last week to lobby fellow local governments and the Province on a number of issues of both regional and provincial concern. Chief among these were: fire insurance for rural homeowners, broadband for rural areas throughout the Columbia basin, provincial cost sharing for potential disaster […]

Since 2005, Eileen Delehanty Pearkes has researched and explored the natural and human history of the rivers of the upper Columbia River Basin.  She speaks frequently at conferences and symposia throughout the Basin on the history of the Columbia River Treaty and its effects on Basin residents.  She has recently completed a...

Work on installing a liner to the forebay of BC Hydro’s Kootenay Canal continues now that the water has been drained from the massive reservoir. The $10 million project that’s using a 70-person crew — including engineers, safety experts, construction workers and environment workers —  is about half way to completion. The material being used […]