Let the playoff season begin says this NMHA grad
By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily Sports Geoff Kinrade isn’t just happy to be back in the playoffs, he wants to win it all. The Binghamton Senator rearguard is bubbling with confidence after the Ottawa farm team went on a late-season 6-3-0-1 run to secure seventh place in the Eastern Conference — fifth in the division […]
Balfour, finally, ready to start golfing season
By The Nelson Daily Sports For those people living under a rock, the month is April and not February. Which means golf courses should not be opening for the first time, but already have seen hoards of birdies, bogeys and pars. Still good things come to those who wait. And the wait is over as […]
High drama at Castlegar airport ends well
A terrifying high-air emergency kept Castlegar emergency crews busy Friday afternoon, when an Air Canada airplane with 25 people (22 passengers and three crew members) on board reported engine failure immediately after taking off from Castlegar. The plane, destined for Calgary, took off at 11:50 a.m., but radioed the airport just seven minutes later with […]
City complaint turns into grow operation bust
A Public Works complaint turned into a marijuana grow operation bust Sunday in the hospital area of the city. Using some information from the complaint, police obtained a search warrant to enter the residence in the neighbourhood around Kootenay Lake Hospital where they discovered 400 plants amidst a sizable marijuana grow operation. The equipment was […]
City Centre Motel No More
It took years of legal battles to reach this point, but only hours once demolition began to see the City Centre Motel on 2nd Street completely razed. Demolition began at 9:30 a.m and the buildings were reduced to rubble by 1 p.m. on April 7. Click on this story for a photo gallery of the […]
YOU CHOOSE: Chamber Business Excellence Awards now online
Local consumers now have a chance to recognize their favourite Castlegar businesses, as the Chamber of Commerce rolls out their annual Business Excellence Awards … with a couple of exciting new twists this year. First of all, folks can now cast their votes online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/P9G9X5J between April 1 and...
Federal All Candidates Forum in Castlegar next Tuesday
The Castlegar & District Chamber of Commerce will be hosting an All Candidates Forum prior to the upcoming general election. Each candidate of the British Columbia Southern Interior electoral district will be invited to participate. Kyra Hoggan, of The Castlegar Source, will emcee the event, which will follow standard...
Local woman to serve drug-dealing sentence behind bars
A convicted drug trafficker will be spending the rest of her sentence in jail after breaching the conditions of her sentence, according to police.Castlegar RCMP Cpl. Dan Pollock said 48-year-old Castlegar woman Barb Nelson was convicted in June 2010 of two counts of trafficking in a controlled substance, and was subsequently...
Castlegar car bomb raises explosive issues
A car bomb that exploded in Ootischenia this morning has brought up a number of issues, not the least of which (of course) is “whodunit”. Police say they don’t yet have any suspects in the bombing, which occurred in the 1300 block of Columbia Road at about 1 a.m. “Castlegar RCMP officers responded, […]
Getting to know Bryan Hunt: Environmentalist, conservative business man, artist and Green Party candidate
A recurring mantra of childhood fatherly advice, a deep rooted love for the region and the desire to do what’s right: Bryan Hunt’s formula for getting elected as the Green Party MP in the BC Southern Interior riding is also a formula he hopes will allow him and folks like him to spend more time […]
