UPDATE: Travel advisories for Kootenay Pass, Paulson Summit lifted
Travel advisories for the Kootenay Pass and Paulson Summit on Highway 3 have been lifted according to the Drive BC Website. The recent storm over the Southern Interior lowered the freezing level causing snow of accumulate at higher elevations and Drive BC to issue the advisories to the public. Kootenay Pass Twitter messages said, “no […]
Resident group garnering signatures to oppose pesticide use in city parks/play spaces
A group of local residents is using three Facebook pages, an online petition, and several hard copy petitions to try to pressure the City of Castlegar to ban pesticide use in city parks and play areas. Elise Bourgeois, a mother of three who lives right next to Millennium Park, said she opposes any kind of […]
Trail kids net professional filming gig for Silver City Days
Five Trail teens got the experience of a lifetime while bringing a whole new realm of publicity for Silver City Days’ 50th anniversary this year. City communication and events coordinator Andrea Jolly said she was surprised by the initiative shown by Grade 11 J. L. Crowe student Eric Gonzalez, 17, when he approached her offering […]
The Rossland Broadband Task Force wants your input! How can you say no?
Rossland Broadband Task Force Greetings! Hello from the Rossland Broadband Task Force Rossland City Council is considering a partnership with the Columbia Basin Broadband Corporation (CBBC), a division of Columbia Basin Trust, to bring an extension of CBBC's "open access network" to Rossland. The Mayor of Rossland has ...
Mother Nature raises havoc in West Kootenay
Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning for the West Kootenay Tuesday but it’s the wind surfacing during the evening that may have caused the most damage to property in the region. Tuesday at approximately 6:49 p.m. a wind gust dropped a tree onto a house in the Shoreacres, a few kilometers west of the Highway […]
Regional District of Central Kootenay Board considers everything from carbon neutrality to medical grow ops
By Suzy Hamilton, The Nelson Daily It looks like the Regional District of Central Kootenay will not meet its target to become carbon neutral by 2012, but staff are proposing another option to meet the goal in the near future. As a participant in the Carbon Neutral Kootenays (CNK) project, the RDCK had set a […]
UPDATE: CFIA responds to reasons for changing the meaning of 'local'
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency responded to a story in The Nelson Daily Tuesday regarding changes made to the meaning of “local food” in labeling in grocery stores. Elena Koutsavakis Media Relations for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency apologized for not confirming The Nelson Daily received an email from the federal agency Tuesday afternoon. Concerns […]
COMMENT: Democracy loses
The Conservative government tabled the Bill C-45: Jobs and Growth Act on October 18, 2012. It became law on December 14, 2012. Bill C-45 was the second omnibus budget bill passed in 2012. The first omnibus budget bill was Bill C-38: Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act, which became law in June 2012. The Bills are intended...
Heavy hitters to attend informal round table discussion in Nelson
Burnaby-New Westminster MP, Peter Julian, the NDP critic for Energy and Natural Resources, will be the featured guest at an informal round table hosted by B.C. Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko, and the EcoSociety in Nelson Saturday, June 1 at the Nelson United Church from 7-9 p.m. The meeting coincides with a presentation at […]
Water Safety Week with summer just around the corner
Police across the province want to advise the public to be extra careful when flocking to the numerous beaches, lakes and rivers as well as community and personal pools as the weather begins to warm up and summer approaches. This week — May 19-25 — is Water Safety Week and the public should be warned […]
