UPDATED: Traffic moving again on Highway 3A north of Creston
Traffic is flowing, all but, slowly through a stretch of Highway 3A 31 kilometers north of Creston following a rock slide last week. DriveBC website is reporting the road is reduced to single lane, alternating traffic until further notice. Rock slide closes Highway 3A north of Creston Getting from the West to East Kootenay ...
Victorian Hospital ER hours to change in April
Interior Health is proceeding with changing the hours of operation at the Victorian Community Health Centre after doctors were unable to follow through with a proposed plan for 24/7 emergency department coverage. IH made the announcement Thursday, effective Tuesday, April 1, the new hours at the Kaslo-based health center will be Monday to Friday, 9 […]
Man goes on drug-induced vehicular assault rampage in Castlegar
Ed Note: The following is a press release issued by the Castlegar RCMP: A 37-year-old Lillooet man is in police custody after an incident that occurred in downtown Castlegar in the early evening hours of Feb. 18. It is believed that the male was travelling through Castlegar on his way to Lillooet. RCMP received several ...
Kootenay Pass closed for avalanche control Thursday
Motorists venturing to the East Kootenay had been put a little extra time into the travel budget as the Kootenay Pass will be closed near the summit for avalanche control Thursday. Crews are closing the highway five kilometers east and west of the Kootenay Pass summit for avalanche control from 7-10 a.m. Traffic should detour […]
Avalanche closes Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merrit
The recent winter storm dropped too much snow on the Coquihalla Highway, sparking an avalanche near the summit that closed Highway 5 between Hope and Merrit. Reports say one vehicle got stuck in the snow., but no one was injured. The DriveBC website said the highway won’t re-open until 8 a.m. PT, at the earliest […]
Woman's body found in river
The body of a local woman was pulled from the Columbia River yesterday, according to Trail RCMP Cpl. Kelly Hall. "On Feb. 17 at approximately 5 p.m. RCMP were called to the bank of the Columbia River west of the Old Bridge in Trail after reports of a body in a shallow area of the river," she said. "The body has been identified...
Bizarre stabbing at airport Sunday morning
A 28-year-old Castlegar man is facing a laundry list of charges after a bizarre incident at the airport yesterday morning, according to RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew. "At approximately 5:30 a.m on February 16th, Castlegar RCMP were called to the West Kootenay Airport in response to a suspicious male complaint," Mathew said. "(The)...
Dyck shoots Saints past TRU 3-2 in shootout
Darnell Dyck scored in shootout to lift the Selkirk College Men’s Hockey team to a 3-2 victory over Thompson Rivers University in B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League action Saturday in Kamloops. The win keeps the hopes for another first place BCIHL finish for the Saints alive. Saturday night Selkirk hosts Simon Fraser University in a huge […]
Mt. Sentinel Grad Kendra Wayling gets grand send off at UBC/O
Castlegar’s Kendra Wayling varsity volleyball career is not over quite yet. Wayling, who was ceremoniously sent off during Senior’s Night at UBC/Okanagan, helped the Heat defeat Brandon 2-0 in the best-of-three Canada West Women’s Volleyball series Friday night and advance to the Final Four next weekend in Vancouver. The Heat, after surprising the Bobcats Thursday […]
RDCK to set guidelines for zoning of medical marijuana production facilities
The Regional District of Central Kootenay has taken a step toward guiding the potential establishment of medical marijuana production facilities (MPFs) within its boundaries after the new federal regulations come into place as of April 1, 2014, with a resolution to draft a definition for MPFs within its zoning bylaws and the establishment of a […]
