The BC Coroners Service has announced that a planned inquest into the death of Sheilah Lorraine Sweatman has been postponed. The inquest was scheduled to begin on Monday, June 4, in Nelson. However, a delay has been found to be necessary to ensure availability of all required witnesses as well as counsel for parties with […]

Granite Pointe’s Carson Arcuri, Ryan Fullerton of Rossland/Trail, Trevor Browell of Champion Lakes and Kaslo’s Shawn Ellard all earned spots on the Zone One West Kootenay B.C. Summer Games Golf team as the junior circuit made a stop at Redstone Resort in Rossland. The quartet qualified during the latest stop on the Zone One West […]

Constant delays for the Kootenay Lake Hospital ER Redevelopment Project had Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall questioning Minister of Health Michael de Jong in the provincial legislature earlier this month. The $15.3 million renovations, which includes expansion of the Emergency Room and diagnostic imaging department with a new CT scanner suite, began with an announcement in […]

Josh Coletti of Granite Pointe, Jordan Hoodikoff of Christina Lake and Don Courson, golfing out of the Castlegar course, grabbed the top prizes at the Zone One West Kootenay Men’s Qualifying Tournament Sunday in Christina Lake. Coletti and Hoodikoff each fired 8-over-par 152 to claim the top two spots on the Zone One West Kootenay […]

Ed. Note: The following is a press release issued by the government of B.C. Premier Christy Clark, along with Margaret MacDiarmid, Minister of Labour, Citizens' Services and Open Government were joined by local families at the Vancouver Aquarium today to announce that B.C.'s Family Day will take place on the second Monday in...

Nelson Police Department have released the age of the Selkirk Paving worker pinned under a truck during an industrial accident Friday afternoon near the 900 block of Victoria Street on Gyro Park Road. The injuried worker is a 53-year-old local man. While unloading the paver from the trailer towed by the dump truck, the equipment […]

A man's death this morning resulted in a car accident on Columbia Avenue, according to Castlegar RCMP Cpl. Dan Pollock. "At approximately 10:30 a.m. the Castlegar RCMP, along with the Castlegar Fire Department and BC Ambulance, responded to a medical emergency near the railway tracks at Columbia Avenue and 17 Street," he said....

One member of the board of the Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) will try to convince his board on June 8 to reverse a controversial 3–year-old decision about the Jumbo Glacier real estate development.   The RDEK was faced in 2009 with the prospect of having to hold public hearings as part of a […]

The layoffs of 19 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions in the Kootenay Lake School District and the closures of the two District Resource Centres has local teachers feeling angry and upset, said Nelson District Teachers’ Association union representative Tom Newell. “Teachers are angry, upset and scared that programs are being dismantled,” said Newell. Although the number […]

This is one door-to-door campaign you don't want to miss out on - when Suzanne Fordyce is done offering you a free personal consultation, you'll know how to conserve water (read: save money) without sacrificing garden quality ... and you'll get free stuff, to boot! The CIty of Castlegar hired Fordyce as part of its WaterSmart...