The Transportation Safety Board said it will take the time needed to complete a thorough investigation of the fatal plane crash near Lake Country that killed four people Thursday. The twin-engine Cessna Citation disappeared from radar at 9:40 p.m. PT on Thursday, only 11 kilometres north of Kelowna Airport  after takeoff from...

At least two people in Nelson have overdosed on a green powder that is likely Fentanyl an ANKORS representative told The Nelson Daily. The ANKORS rep said one person was taken to Kootenay Lake Hospital while the other was revived using Naloxone, after they overdosed on a green powder purchased online. While there hasn’t been...

Storm season has arrived earlier than usual this year, and as a result, the Province is providing early funding to any Extreme Weather Response (EWR) shelter in British Columbia that is prepared to open early. While the EWR season officially runs from Nov. 1 to March 31, almost 30 EWR shelters across Metro Vancouver and around...

The RCMP is saddened to confirm that four individuals have been killed in a plane crash that occurred late Thursday night, October 13 in Lake Country. Media agencies have confirmed one the four people on the plane was former Alberta premier Jim Prentice. Prentice, 60, was aboard a twin-engine Cessna Citation that disappeared from radar […]

A bizarre US trend - dubbed the 'creepy clown craze' by media - has made its way to the Kootenays, according to Trail RCMP Cpl. Darryl Orr. Orr says the phenomenon (which Time Magazine says began in August in South Carolina after reports of people in clown costumes trying to lure children into the woods and has since expanded...

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died after a motor vehicle incident near Rock Creek on Oct. 3. He was Douglas Lawrence Leighton, aged 50, most recently of Surrey. Leighton was the driver of a car heading west on Highway 3 at about 3:20 p.m. on Oct. 3. Near the intersection of Myers Creek Road...

A new video starring Selkirk College students shows off the benefits of jumping on board West Kootenay Transit. Produced by Digital Arts & New Media Program student James Tucker, the partnership between the college and BC Transit aims to change how the community thinks about transportation. “Public transit in the West Kootenay region provides an […]

I’ve often thought politicians inhabit a parallel universe. Maybe it’s just widespread cognitive dissonance, coupled with a lack of imagination, that compels them to engage in so much contradictory behaviour. Trying to appease so many varying interests isn’t easy. Rather than focusing on short-term economic and corporate...

RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk released the following statement at 4:46 p.m. Wednesday: The RCMP can now confirm that we have located the body of the suspect we were searching for. He was found deceased.  A positive confirmation of identification and the exact cause of death is now the subject of a full investigation by the […]

Present:   Councillors Andy Morel (acting Mayor in Kathy Moore's absence), Lloyd McLellan, Aaron Cosbey, Marten Kruysse, John Greene, and  Andrew Zwicker. Public Input Period:   Petri Raito of the Rossland Beer company said he supports the proposed bylaw to allow for a larger micro-brewery in Rossland's downtown core.  Cosbey...