Golden City Days calling for Parade entries!
Golden City Days is looking for colorful parade participants to march down Columbia Avenue on Saturday September 12! Here's the invitation: Please accept this invitation to participate in the 2015 Golden City Days Parade on Saturday, 12 September 2015 You may enter a float, a vehicle, a marching or walking group, play music,...
Sitkum Creek Wildfire 90 percent contained, Area Restriction Order rescinded
Mother Nature is making life a lot easier for BC Wildfire firefighters battling the Sitkum Creek Interface Wildfire north of Nelson. Thanks to recent rains and an effective burnoff — July 18 — the wildfire is now 90 percent contained, allowing the Southeast Fire Centre to relax an area restriction order. "An Area Restriction...
Vehicle torched on Woodland Drive; fire ban still in effect
Fire crews were called out at roughly 5:50 a.m. on Monday to deal with reports of black smoke emanating from the gravel pit on Woodland Drive, according to fire chief Gerry Rempel. “We arrived to find a vehicle on fire,” he said, adding it was fully engulfed in flames. “We put it out in short order, but the vehicle was...
Vandals damage grave markers at Nelson Memorial Cemetery
City of Nelson Memorial Cemetery staff arrived to work Friday morning to find that vandals pushed over a handful of grave markers during the night. Nelson Police were called to the Uphill-based cemetery to investigate the vandalism. Police found that vandals had pushed over the grave markers in the Anglican section of the...
NPD, Physician concerned with string of recent drug overdoses
Interior Health and Nelson Police are warning the public in the wake of at least four critical drug overdose cases in Nelson over the last three months. The warning comes as the summer festival season heats up — Starbelly Jam, Shambhala and Unity Music Festival — in the Nelson area. “This is my third year in Nelson, and I’ve...
UPDATED: Happy ending to scary missing person story
The region gets to experience what RCMP Cpl. Darryl Orr calls a “rare happy ending,” in a local missing persons case that went on for more than a week. “It is with great pleasure the Trail & Greater District RCMP announce that the exhaustive investigation and search for missing person Gavin Ballard, aged 23 years, has...
SE Fire Centre urges caution as crews battle blazes near Christina Lake and Upper Arrow Lake
Since Monday, July 20, the BC Wildfire Service has responded to 81 new wildfires in the Southeast Fire Centre. All but five of those fires were lightning-caused. Ground crews are being supported by helicopters and airtankers as they work to contain and extinguish the fires, with 39 of them already out or contained. None of ...
Police boat makes first summer patrol of Arrow Lake Saturday
Did you know that it’s a Criminal Code violation to pull a waterskier without a spotter in the boat? Or that driving a boat drunk will get you the same penalties as driving your car drunk? The Kootenay Boundary Regional RCMP detachment is out on our waterways this summer – many boaters saw the police in their rigid-hull...
Singing cowboy crosses country in horse-drawn chuckwagon - with stops in Trail and Castlegar
Motorists in Trail must’ve been doubting their own eyes this morning, as many watched a man head through town driving an authentic chuckwagon (wooden wheels, on-board kitchen and all) pulled by four horses and towing a covered wagon behind with feed, cruising along the highway. Pierre Cloutier, 41, left his small town of St....
Province Provides Selkirk College Funding for New Trades Training Equipment
Selkirk College is receiving $87,000 from the provincial government to purchase new industry-standard technology for its trades programs. As part of B.C.’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint, the government is investing $12 million in 2015-16 for new trades equipment at 14 public post-secondary institutions so students planning to...
