“We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.”   – Emile Chartier   There is no doubt what Christy Clark and Stephen Harper were trying to prove with their announcements over the past 10 days. The environment – and anyone who stands up for it […]

Routine checks and reports of a disturbance ended in some lockup time for a 45-year-old Nelson resident and 33-year-old transient. Early Thursday morning Aaron Reynold was charged with two counts of fail to comply with an undertaking and four counts of possession of a controlled substance after a routine traffice stop of a vehicle. Reynold […]

On April 28, a dinner and dance will be held at the Castlegar Community Complex to raise money for Cole Hoodicoff, a local 12-year-old boy, to attain specialized, out-of-province rehabilitation therapy.  Cole was paralyzed from the chest down in a skiing accident on January 3, 2011. As a result, he is permanently reliant upon...

The Beaver Valley Nitehawks realized game one of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League Final was not one of the team’s best of the playoffs. Game two the Hawks turned it up a few notches. Beaver Valley exploded for five goals in the first two periods to blast the Kelowna Chiefs 7-1 Thursday in Fruitvale […]

As many as 100 people – staff, students and members of the community – showed up for a Selkirk College Board of Governors meeting Tuesday night to hear the proposed suspension in college programming that is the result of more than $1 million in funding cuts from the province. Current Selkirk students Christina Livingston, Arielle […]

Staff at Thompson Funeral Home would like to re-acquaint family with deceased love ones, cremated in Nelson and forgotten in storage at the Heritage City facility. To complete the task staff placed an advertisement in the local newspaper in accordance to provincial legislation. The title of the advertisement, Disposition of Unclaimed Cremated Remains, lists more […]

Castlegar RCMP have closed a bizarre file involving a canoe-riding cello, according to Sgt. Laurel Mathew. “On March 23, police were alerted to a canoe floating in the Columbia River behind the Selkirk College, unattended,” Mathew said. “Inside the red canoe was a cello in a brown case, and several pieces of paper which appear...

Thirteen mayors, councillors, and regional district directors from across the West Kootenay gathered in Castlegar on March 27 to establish a climate action peer network, share challenges, inspire others and determine ways to work together on their common goals of reducing energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and...

It should come to the surprise of no one the official oppostion, NDP, is less than thrilled at Thursday’s Federal Budget. Alex Atamanenko, MP for BC Southern Interior, is disppointed with the direction taken by the Conservative government in the 2012 federal budget introduced today in the House of Commons.  Atamanenko said the government’s plan to […]

RCMP have siezed another residence in the Slocan Valley through a Property Restraint Order. Cst. Shaun Foley of the Slocan Lake Detachment said officers sought and obtained a Property Restraint Order, issued by a B.C. Supreme Court Judge in the Vancouver Registry, for a property that contained a commercial marihuana grow operation. “The accused and […]