The City of Castlegar is putting out an early tender for the roughly $2.3-million Phase Two of the airport-lands-servicing project, after an unanimous vote at council’s regular meeting Monday evening. “This is where we connect the pipe (recently installed spanning Kinnaird bridge during Phase One) at either end – on one end to the city’s […]

I absolutely applaud a resolution Mayor Lawrence Chernoff announced Monday that he’d be bringing forward to council next meeting to consider bringing to the Association of Kootenay Boundary Local Governments and from there, if it passes, to the Union of BC Municipalities and then to the provincial government. In effect, the resolution will ask that […]

By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily Staff and management at Whitewater Resort must have put in a call to Mother Nature prior to applying the finishing touches to the 2012 Winter Carnival weekend. Why else would the lovely lady dump 125 plus centimeters on the hill in January to make the scenery wintry and conditions excellent. […]

Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke lost her battle nine days after crashing at the bottom of the superpipe during a training run in Utah, dying Thursday at the age of 29.Burke was injured Jan. 10 while training at a personal sponsor event at the Park City Mountain resort. The native of Squamish, B.C. fell during […]

Champions are among us! If you know someone who has played a significant role in promoting tobacco free living why not give them a pat on the back and nominate them for a Smoke Free Champions for Change Award?These Interior Health awards honour people who have made a difference in the lives of others by promoting smoke-free...

A backpack containing 18 pounds of drug ecstasy valued at $135,000 was found abandoned along the border just west of Danville on Monday. The United States Border Patrol seized the “designer” drug and $14,000 in American currency near the port of entry on the American side. The ecstasy was packaged in powder form. Agents discovered […]

 January 18 was an important day for the Internet. Corporate websites, from Google to Twitpic, along with civil society groups and individuals, have all joined together in a common cause: to protest two American bills that could have grave effects for global online free expression. As Global Voices' Executive Director ...

Slippery roads are the blame for at least two accidents Tuesday afternoon on Highway 3A west of Nelson. At approximately 4:20 p.m., a late model Honda collided with a Ford F150 near the Bonnington/South Slocan border. Both single-occupant vehicles ended up in the ditch with the women driving the Honda taken by ambulance for precautionary […]

This week US citizens observed National Human Trafficking Awareness Day through acts of education, legislation, and enforcement; whilst, around the world, other people highlighted or tackled this global problem in their own countries.According to an annual report on human trafficking released by the US State Department in...

Alissa Arnason, late of both Rossland and Dandelion and the Ditchweeds, was back in town for a visit last week and the Telegraph's David Hartman was lucky enough to take some footage of her singing her fine new song, "All The Greatest Things". Check it out....