Teck penalized over $200,000 for exceeding pH; money to go to conservation
Teck Trail Operations has been assessed a penalty of $210,000 under the Fisheries Act and the Environmental Management Act. $200,000 of the penalty will be split evenly between the provincial Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation and the federal Environmental Damages Fund. The funds will be used to support habitat conservation...
Bring Fracking Directly to the Premier As She Travels to Champion B.C.'s Gas Industry
On Sunday morning, activists with Rising Tide-Vancouver Coast Salish Territories set up a 15-foot mock fracking rig on Premier Christy Clark's lawn and announcing that "Because the Premier loves fracking, we figured we would save her the hassle of trying to take over other peoples' homes and bring it right to her!" says...
GALLERY: Winter's coming but the Rossland Museum keeps ticking along...
The Rossland HIstorical Museum may be closed for the season, but that doesn't mean that there hasn't been things happening there. Recently, the Museum partnered with the Rossland Heritage Commission to present the third and final instalment of our historical lecture series, "War, Murder and Graves: Stories and Legends of...
Fourth driest October on record for West Kootenay
The West Kootenay experienced the fourth driest October on record said Ron Lakeman, Weather Forecaster
for the Southeast Fire Centre. “This was one of the driest Octobers — fourth driest on record,” Lakeman said. “The monthly total amount of precipitation (all rain) was only 7.4 millimetres. Other notably dry Octobers were...
Car fire this morning 'suspicious'
Police and the fire department are teaming up to investigate a fire that destroyed a vehicle this morning, according to fire chief Gerry Rempel. "The Castlegar Fire Department was dispatched to a garage fire in the 2100 block of Columbia Avenue shortly before 6:30 a.m. today (Nov. 2)," Rempel said. "A vehicle was fully involved...
IBEW Local 213 decides not to ratify tentative deal with Fortis BC, lockout continues
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 213 members have voted down a tentative agreement reached in the four-month old Fortis BC lockout, leaving the 200-plus members behind lockout lines. The vote was 59 percent against accepting a tentative five-year deal. “We’re very close . . . we’re so close,” Kerry Hiebert of the IBEW Local […]
Driver's concentration, alertness and reaction time decrease with end of daylight savings time
The end of daylight savings time occurs Sunday morning at 2 a.m. Accidents happen for the next two weeks according to statistics released by ICBC. The Insurance Corporation of BC says 16 per cent increase in the average number of crashes in B.C. during the late afternoon commute in the two weeks following the end of Daylight...
Sunday marks the end of Daylight Savings Time, remember to fall back
It’s that time of the year when the clocks in houses of The Nelson Daily readers must be turned back an our to mark the end of Canada Daylight Saving Time. Sunday, at 2 a.m., is the official return to standard time in most places, except for Fort St. John, Charlie Lake, Taylor and Dawson […]
Trail to get big $ assist from province and ICBC
The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MoTI) and the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) have both contributed financially to the City of Trail’s Victoria Street Revitalization Project. The ministry has provided $125,000 in funding with ICBC contributing $28,400 towards the city’s key revitalization...
No joy at Whitewater as Revelstoke nips West Kootenay favourite in Powder Magazine 2014 Ski Town Throwdown contest
There will be no repeat for Whitewater in the Powder Magazine 2014 Ski Town Throwdown popularity contest. The Nelson-based resort was eliminated in the second round of the contest by Revelstoke by the narrowest of margins — 1527 to 1507. Throughout the day the ski hills traded leads, with Whitewater holding a slim four vote...
