by City of Castlegar on Friday Aug 27 2021
Campfires will again be allowed within the City of Castlegar effective noon on Friday Aug. 27, 2021.
This is in conjunction with the Southeast Fire Centre announcing they are lifting campfire bans in the Arrow Lakes fire zone.
As always, Category 2 and Category 3 open fires remain prohibited within the city boundaries. In addition, the following activities will continue to be...
by Timothy Schafer Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on Friday Aug 27 2021
Although a BC Utilities Commission review approved an increase to Nelson Hydro rural customer rates it noted the city-owned utility’s index of service reliability had deteriorated in recent years, and its current level of service reliability to its rural customers was not adequate.
As a result, Nelson Hydro must file with the BCUC — within the next three months — a five-year vegetation...
by City of Castlegar on Friday Aug 27 2021
Last week Copcan focussed on paving business and residential driveways and the bottom lifts between 23rd and 24th Street, raising the manhole and water valve covers from 20th Street to 23rd Street, and landscaping and irrigation work within boulevards on the east side of the project.
Next week, you can expect to see:
- finishing...
by City of Castlegar on Friday Aug 27 2021
All ponds were closed earlier this month due to above normal levels of E. coli resulting from increased geese activity in and around the ponds. The measures the City took to reduce E. coli worked and the City has met the testing guidelines for two consecutive weeks.
During the closure, two of the ponds accumulated algae, a naturally occurring water plant. It may not look pretty but it...
by Southeast Fire Centre on Thursday Aug 26 2021
The combination of a return to more seasonal weather conditions, with rainfall and cooler temperatures and decreased fire danger ratings, have reduced the risk of wildfires in southeastern B.C.
Effective at noon on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, campfires will be permitted in the Cranbrook, Invermere, Columbia, Arrow and Kootenay Lake fire zones. However, campfires will remain prohibited in the...
by Lone Sheep Publishing on Wednesday Aug 25 2021
As new COVID-19 cases continue to increase across BC, so do the numbers of new cases in the Kootenay region.
And again, the Nelson area has seen another increase after the BC Centre of Disease Control Wednesday released is most recent data, from August 15-21, 2021.
Nelson saw an increase of almost 30 per cent from the previous week, topping the Kootenay Boundary with 153 new...
by Timothy Schafer Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on Wednesday Aug 25 2021
The current nature of development in Nelson is not serving the needs of some of the people of the city, one city councillor claimed during a recent elected official’s meeting.
Keith Page asked city council and city staff to make a commitment during an Aug. 17 regular council business meeting in council chambers to stage a workshop to deal with the disparity between the type of housing...
by Lone Sheep Publishing on Tuesday Aug 24 2021
Interior Health said in a media release Tuesday that it recently discovered doses of COVID-19 vaccine stored in an incorrect freezer and now considers the doses invalid.
The result is hundreds of residents in the Revelstoke area are now being offered an additional shot of the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Receiving an invalid dose of vaccine does not pose risk to the client and fortunately...
by Province of British Columbia on Tuesday Aug 24 2021
As of Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, masks must be worn in all indoor public spaces throughout B.C. to help slow the transmission of COVID-19 as B.C. prepares for the fall and respiratory illness season.
A new order from the provincial health officer will require people 12 and older to wear masks in indoor public settings, regardless of vaccination status.
These settings include:...
by The Nelson Daily Staff on Tuesday Aug 24 2021
More than 100 people set up shop outside the Nelson RCMP detachment Monday to protest police attacks on old growth forest defenders at Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island.
The protest, dubbed the “Last Stand West Kootenays” was staged to express concerns over the recent escalating level of violence against Fairy Creek protesters by members of the RCMP.
The protest was one...
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