WAIT! Put that spatula down and don’t bother cooking dinner at all Friday night! There’s a much better option – less expensive, more fun, and a way to ease the holidays for your neighbours in need. This Friday, Dec. 11, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., you can get a spaghetti-and-meatballs dinner complete with bread, coffee and dessert,...

Police are very keen to find witnesses after a brutal and apparently unprovoked assault on a Good Samaritan yesterday, according to RCMP Cpl. Darryl Orr. “On Dec. 7 at 2:49 a.m., a local utility worker stopped his vehicle on the Warfield Hill below Webster School to provide assistance to a vehicle, which was parked on the...

Unseasonably high temperatures and heavy precipitation coupled with recent increased snowpack, and forecasted 40mm of rain, will cause an increase in avalanche hazard over Kootenay Pass on Highway 3 starting tonight said Katie Ward, Operations Manager-Central Kootenay MOTI West Kootenay District. "It is very likely the...

A 71-year-old man is in hospital with a broken pelvis after an accident on Highway 3 yesterday that shut down traffic for hours. Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue Chief Terry Martin said they got the call at roughly 4:15 p.m., and found the crash scene roughly five kilometres west of Nancy Greene Lake. “The logging-truck...

Comments and feedback are being sought on a proposed new Access Management Area in the Pend d'Oreille Valley in the Kootenay Boundary region as part of an update to the spring 2016 edition of the B.C. Hunting and Trapping Synopsis. The proposed change, under the Wildlife Act's motor vehicle prohibition regulation, would reduce...

Matt Beaudet grew up in Castlegar. He now lives in Alberta with his wife and three children and, at just 31 years old, is staring down a cancer prognosis that gives him roughly a year to live. His current wish is to have his family (most of whom are here in Castlegar) by his side over the holidays, as he undergoes aggressive...

Thanks to the system moving through south of the 49th parallel, the Special Weather Statement for the West Kootenay has been cancelled by Environment Canada. There will still be periods of rain, with snow level at 1000 metres. Tuesday, increasing temperature has snow level rising from 1000 to 2000 metres near noon with the ...

HELP US PLAN THE RESTORATION OF THE OLD GLORY FOREST FIRE LOOKOUT PUBLIC WORKSHOP, DECEMBER 10, 2015, 7:00 PM UNITED CHURCH HALL, 2110 1ST AVENUE, ROSSLAND The Friends of the Rossland Range and the Ministry of Forests are on track to restore the forest fire lookout on the summit of Old Glory as a heritage and interpretive...

On the eve of the most tragic day, Irene Lanzinger, President of the BC Federation of Labour, released a statement marking the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women — December 6. December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada. Established in 1991 by the...

With marijuana legalization becoming a near inevitability, many organizations are gearing up to prepare the next generation of leaders for the cannabis industry. Women Grow, located in the Front Street Emporium offices in Nelson, is a collective of industry trailblazers looking to “connect, educate, inspire and empower the ...