This Saturday, gardening secrets, tips and tricks will be revealed throughout The Golden City as Rossland hosts a self-guided garden tour. Rain or shine, 10 local gardens will be on public display to everyone from the experienced landscaper to the amateur garden enthusiast. Jackie Drysdale, organizer of the event thinks there’s...

Police say they have solid leads in the investigation of dramatic vandalism at Zuckerberg Island last weekend, but they’re still asking the public to come forward with any information people might have regarding the culprits responsible for trashing the community site. “We’re convinced that someone saw who did this,” said RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew. “Enough […]

Aquabounty Technologies (AT), headquartered in the US, has genetically modified (GM) a faster growing Atlantic salmon by inserting a growth hormone gene from Chinook salmon and genetic material from the eel-like ocean pout. The company’s business plan is to produce genetically modified salmon eggs in Prince Edward Island...

A total of five cuts will be made to transit service in Nelson, with the first coming into effect Aug. 1 with the elimination of Sunday service. Council voted in late June in favour of slicing and dicing the Sunday offering in order to save $31,000 out of the City’s annual budget for transit. The […]

The City of Nelson took home over $500,000 as the Province handed out its second installment of the Strategic Community Investment Fund (SCIF) — part of a total of $91 million province-wide. The investment includes advance payments of Small Community and Regional District Grants and the Traffic Fine Revenue Sharing program. A first installment was […]

Science has become part of the culture of Trafalgar Middle School. The school placed second in the province with 34.25 per cent student participation in the regional science fair, behind only Fort St. John’s Duncan Cran Elementary (60 per cent). Each school will win their choice of a fully loaded laptop computer or an audio […]

Members of the international group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (best known as PETA) are calling on Mayor Brian Taylor to halt the plan for culling urban deer herds in Grand Forks.   The email campaign has swamped Grand Forks Mayor Brian Taylor whose council approved an urban deer management plan only weeks […]

By Michael Jessen A life without lights and a house without heat; that’s the definition of extreme energy poverty. While it might be common to think of energy or fuel poverty as a problem in developing countries, it exists in some shape in our communities. It is a big issue in African and Asian countries […]

Volunteer service won out over academic standing as the Columbia Basin Trust handed out scholarships to 43 high school graduates from the region, including three students from Nelson. The graduates were recently presented with $2,000 scholarships at the 2011 Youth Community Service Awards toward their first year of post-secondary education or training. Rebecca Afford, Aileen […]

From video game design and digital music, to bio-engineering, business and dentistry; Kootenay and Boundary communities can expect some amazing future achievements from the 2011 grads. The Kootenay Association for Science & Technology (KAST) recognized the region’s talented tech and science students. Five students from School District No. 8 were recent recipients of scholarships from […]