By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily The Villa Motel will be coming forward with accommodations for at least one month for some of the around 60 people who were left homeless after the Kerr Apartment Building burned on Jan. 6, the city’s mayor announced Monday night. John Dooley said although long-term accommodations for the people […]

Ted Williams, a former radio announcer from Columbus, Ohio has become a YouTube sensation after a video of the homeless man talking to a local reporter was uploaded onto the website. In the video, he can be seen standing on the exit ramp of Interstate 71 at Hudson Street, holding a sign claiming that he […]

Police are asking for the public’s assistance in another missing person case. 49-year-old Shawn McDonald has gone missing from Christina Lake where he has been living since September.  McDonald was last seen on Jan. 1 at 5:00 p.m. in Christina Lake and was reported missing on Jan. 3 to the Grand Forks RCMP detachment, explained […]

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily With the latest unemployment figures painting a bleak picture of the province, the situation appears equally dismal in the Kootenay region. The latest figures from Statistics Canada indicate the unemployment rate reached 7.6 per cent in December, up from 6.9 per cent in November — with the rate at […]

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily The community is pulling together in the wake of the Kerr Apartments fire that left over 100 people homeless in the dead of winter. Donations of clothing, toys and other items for people left homeless by the fire at the Kerr Apartments have been overwhelming, said Bill Macpherson, Emergency […]

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Hours after 100 people from the Kerr Apartment Building were evacuated from the burning three-storey stone structure the city’s fire chief says the incident is being treated as suspicious. Simon Grypma said he did not see how a fire could have started accidentally in the basement of the three-storey […]

A Washington State couple is facing severe criminal consequences after failing to fool law enforcement at the Carson Port of Entry into Grand Forks, BC. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and RCMP announced today the seizure of over 80 kg of suspected cocaine at the port on Dec. 16, 2010. The cocaine is worth […]

By Bruce Fuhr, The Nelson Daily Is this rumour true or just another Nelson Becker April Fool’s prank to create a buzz? Unfortunately, this is not a prank and The Express will publish for the final time on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 after 22 years of operation. “It’s basically an economic situation,” Express publisher/owner Becker […]

Assessment notices arrived in Rossland residents' mailboxes this week and the general result across the board in Rossland was a 5.15% average drop in assessed value of residential properties in Rossland. In total, Rossland’s assessed tax role decreased from $624 million to $601 million. Early analysis and statistics tend to...

I first ran into Erin at the small, wooden, cramped and awfully uncomfortable desk that is the media table in Rossland city council chambers. Having seen her name in bylines and read her work in the Trail Times among other publications I knew she was good at what she did. I feel it's safe now a few years on to say that when I...