Friday night’s British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) match-up between the Selkirk College Saints and the Trinity Western University Spartans took place at the end of January, but it had the intensity and emotion of a March playoff game. In one of the grittiest contests to be played at the Castlegar &...

Conditions on the Spokane Street hill were pretty good this year  for the Sonny Samuelson Bobsled Race.  Rossland City Council's new bobsled, "Council's Pipe Dream," with its team of councillors  whizzed across the finish line on its first run, but then things went sideways.  That is, their sled went sideways and crashed into...

Concerns have been raised regarding the environmental impact of a proposed logging venture in the Glacier Creek watershed. Gabriela Grabowsky, a landowner in the Glacier Creek region, alerted objectors to the new logging blocks in an effort to raise awareness about the situation. The proposed development area in Glacier Creek...

A further investigation into the Lemon Creek fuel spill will be undertaken by federal ministries as the Fisheries Act charge brought forward by a Slocan Valley resident has been stayed. Federal lawyers from the Public Prosecution Service of Canada said Monday outside of BC Supreme Court in Nelson that Marilyn Burgoon’s charge...

If anyone sees the people associated with the West Kootenay Community TEETH Clinic today, don’t be alarmed if they’re grinning from ear to ear. The West Kootenay Community Teeth Clinic in Nelson made it to the top of the podium, winning the grand prize of $50,000 in a province-wide Pacific Blue Cross contest for local charities....

Transplant patients living in rural communities can be faced with a number of challenges when travelling long distances to attend an appointment. But for Paula Smith, a new telehealth service for post-kidney transplant patients has eliminated all of these.   Paula’s kidney function first started to decline more than 10 years...

Selkirk College Connects to China’s Massive Ski Industry Bob Falle doesn’t mind seeing his students daydream about skiing. “You walk into the classroom, and if it’s snowing outside, you can see the students looking out the window, dreaming the same thing,” says Falle, the Chair of the School of Hospitality & Tourism at ...

Council Matters:  Rossland City Council, January 25, 2016 Council Members Present:  Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Andy Morel, Andrew Zwicker,  and John Greene.  Absent:  Marten Kruysse and Aaron Cosbey. Public  Input Period:  Sean Miller, President of Trail Stingrays, a swimming club with a number of...

A year ago, Nelsonites were paying under a buck for a regular liter of gas. But while Nelson drivers wait for that elusive dip below a dollar, owners in the surrounding West Kootenay are cheering prices as much seven cents below the buck mark. So why the discrepancy in price from say, Centex outside Salmo — 92.9 — to Chevron...

By David Suzuki With the December Paris climate agreement, leaders and experts from around the world showed they overwhelmingly accept that human-caused climate change is real and, because the world has continued to increase fossil fuel use, the need to curb and reduce emissions is urgent. In light of this, I don’t get the ...