The community of Castlegar just got to spend the morning listening to beloved radio personalities Drex & Johnson get progressively more drunk over the course of more than three hours, on air, and with police in the room. Not your standard radio programming, the “social experiment” was the brain child of West Kootenay...

What a way to spend a morning! (See Cops get radio hosts drunk …for a cause story by clicking here). First, I want to say thanks to the Mountain FM team for allowing me to sit in on their unorthodox “social experiment”.   I’ll confess that, as I drove down to the radio station this […]

Introducing a new column for The Nelson Daily: Greening Up – What can I do? Michael Jessen has been following energy issues since the 1973 oil crisis. He has authored more than 700 newspaper and online articles about sustainable lifestyles, waste reduction, and climate change. Currently, Jessen is an efficiency and renewable energy advisor and operates […]

A 19-year-old man from Golden has been arrested and charged in the recent incidents in Nelson of a man propositioning women on the street for sex. Although he has been released on bail, the man, now living in Nelson, was arrested and charged Tuesday by Nelson Police with Section 152 of the Criminal Code with […]

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily The Waneta Dam expansion could create a legacy of skilled trades people for the West Kootenay region, says a Columbia Power spokesperson. Audrey Repin said with a guaranteed policy in place to hire apprentices on the jobsite, many of the over 400 new job hires could become journeymen trades […]

Ed. note: Every year on Christmas eve as young children, just before hanging our stockings on the mantel above the fireplace and heading off to bed our mother would read us The Night Before Christmas from a generations old hard-cover copy of the book. Now that my career has steadily moved further and further into […]

The day after the Rekindle the Spirit of Christmas event on Dec. 4, a person calling him/herself Dirty Hippo posted a long, strongly-worded message on Bhubble criticizing the Charlie Brownness of the Christmas tree in the town square. I wouldn’t refer to it as a tirade, just a firmly-stated, humourously-toned, panning of the organizers’ choice […]

PART I:  The past year has been an eventful one.   In January the Haiti earthquake hit. My staff and I worked for days with Foreign Affairs, a School District and Mt. Sentinel School of South Slocan to safely locate, press for transportation assistance, and rescue a class of high school students caught in Haiti.   […]

 Castlegar RCMP are wishing everyone a joyful holiday season – but reminding revellers that they won't think twice about chucking you in a holding cell if you get behind the wheel after indulging in too much 'Christmas spirits', or if you play the Grinch by committing crimes during this festive season. “We want to see everyone...

Castlegar residents are getting early gifts of Christmas cheer and important information tomorrow (Wednesday) morning, as infamous radio-show hosts ‘Drex & Johnson’ take one for the team by getting drunk on air, under the watchful eye of police. “I’m doing it for the people,” says Shaun Johnson, who will be indulging in beer …for the […]