Bomb scare forces evacuation of Chahko Mika Mall Thursday
The Chahko Mika Mall in Nelson was evacuated Thursday morning due to a bomb scare Nelson Police Department Chief Paul Burkart told The Nelson Daily. Burkart said the call was received at NPD dispatch shortly after 11 a.m. Thursday from the store manager of the WalMart Store that a bomb scare had been received. Burkart said ...
Police continue search for missing Nelson man
In a media release Wednesday, Nelson Police said the officers are still investigating the disappearance of a Nelson man who was last seen at 9:30 p.m on (Sunday) June 4, 2017 in the 200 block of Anderson Street in Nelson. NPD said Darwen Greyeyes is a 55-year-old First Nations male with brown, collar length hair and brown...
A Rossland business celebrates children being outdoors
Sending kids outside to play is one of the best things parents can do for them, right? Books have been written about the many benefits to children's health and development of playing outside in natural surroundings. Trees. Meadows. Creeks. Those books include "Last Child in the Woods" by Richard Louv, "Risk and Adventure...
COLUMN: The trouble with CO2, plants and nutrition
Bigger isn’t always better. Too much of a good thing can be bad. Many anti-environmentalists throw these simple truths to the wind, along with caution. You can see it in the deceitful realm of climate change denial. It’s difficult to keep up with the constantly shifting — and debunked — denier arguments, but one common thread...
UPDATED: Environment Canada continues Special Weather Statement for Paulson Summit to Kootenay Pass
Environment Canada issued a Special Weather Statement Thursday morning for Highway 3, Paulson Summit to Kootenay Pass due to a cold airmass associated with an upper low has caused freezing levels to plummet this week. "Snow has been observed on the Okanagan Connector, Rogers Pass, Paulson Summit and Kootenay Pass on several...
Spraying native plants on City property with herbicide; Rossland IS expensive; street light schedule adjustment; arena suggestions
Regular Council Meeting, September 18, 2017 Present: Acting Mayor Lloyd McLellan, and Councillors John Greene, Marten Kruysse, Aaron Cosbey, Andrew Zwicker; Absent: Mayor Kathy Moore, Andy Morel Public Input Period: The owner of Seven Summits Coffee, who purchased and has been extensively renovating the former Rotary...
Editorial: About those proposed changes in federal income tax: Will they hurt small businesses? Will they hurt farmers?
The short answer, according to a number of reviews done by experts in economics, is ― no. The vast majority of small businesses do not make enough money to be affected at all by the proposed changes in federal taxation. Farmers should not suffer either. In fact, according to the conclusions of those ...
UPDATED: Evacuation Alert ends for Harrop, Proctor, Sunshine Bay, Kootenay Lake Village
The Regional District of Central Kootenay said in a media release Wednesday that BC Wildfire Service feels the threat posed by the Harrop Creek wildfire has diminished enough to rescind the Evacuation Alert for all residents in the communities of Harrop, Procter, Sunshine Bay, and Kootenay Lake Village, effective immediately....
A rare encounter near Rossland
A local man, Daniel Papanek, found something totally unexpected during a hike along the Malde Creek Forest Service Road on Sunday, September 17. It was lying in a coil, the tip of its tail barely visible and adorned with things that rattle when shaken. Just to make sure of its identity, the man took a long branch and just...
From the Hill: Time to invest in post-secondary education
A couple of weeks ago, students returned to colleges and universities across Canada after a long summer break. They have been working hard for months to earn enough to pay for their education, but these days those summer wages don’t go very far. Housing costs have been skyrocketing across the country in recent years,...
