Emergency Operations Centre spokesman Bill Macpherson says one of the water tankers brought to relieve the need in Slocan Valley has been damaged "in a suspicious manner", but there are now additional tankers available to supply residents with potable water. "Executive Flight Centre’s contractor has established two additional...

As a small business owner, you probably wonder from time-to-time how much the business you’ve built is worth. There is no easy or straight-forward answer to the question “How much is my business worth?” It may be worth more to you than it would be to someone else – after all, you built it. It’s […]

Once in a while I do a big giant whoops. Sometimes I get injured, sometimes my pride gets injured, and sometimes I look like a bit of an idiot. I accept that, and I gratefully also accept constructive feedback and criticism when my whoopsies are public. I made a pretty big mistake with my previous article about Richard Plewman...

A dangerous stretch of road east of Kamloops is going to get a major upgrade after the provincial and federal governments agreed to fund the project. Cathy McLeod, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue and Member of Parliament for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo and British Columbia’s Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Todd Stone made the announcement Tuesday. […]

By Suzy Hamilton, The Nelson Daily Frustration and anger were palpable at the Winlaw Community Hall, as a room overflowing into the parking lot with Slocan Valley residents heard the bad news. It will be at least five days and maybe 10 before Slocan Valley residents can use their water in any form. That means no swimming, no...

Emergency responders negotiatied a successful ending to a stand-off with a suicidal man yesterday, according to Trail RCMP Sgt. Rob Hawton. "On July 29, at approx. 6:45 p.m., Trail RCMP received a report of a man in his early 20s on the Trail bridge, with a rope tied around himself," Hawton said. "When police attended, the ...

In a recent ICBC survey, an alarming 30 per cent of respondents admitted that they have nodded off while driving and 43 per cent admitted to driving while feeling fatigued in the last year. In B.C., crashes involving driver fatigue peak in July and August and as a result, an average of four people are […]

Basin residents are invited to connect with each other at the 2013 Columbia Basin Symposium, to be held October 18 to 20 in Creston. This event will focus on "Community Change Through Collaborative Action" and is hosted by Columbia Basin Trust (CBT). "Many of the complex issues facing our communities require collaboration...

Selkirk College’s Health Care Assistant certificate program opened up 10 additional seats for this fall’s program. The extra seats have helped meet interest and demand, as well as employer needs in Selkirk’s northern communities. The additional 10 seats were reserved for students from Nakusp, Kaslo and New Denver, and before...

Executive Flight Centre spokesman Shael Gelfand said the website lemoncreekresponse.ca should be up an running within a couple of hours, and that samples taken from the waterway are being sent to a Burnaby lab, where the testing will be expedited. “Crews are on the river right now, looking for hot spots,” he said, adding there...