The Nelson RCMP has received several complaints from concerned citizens regarding a mail distribution fraud currently targeting the City of Nelson and surrounding Central Kootenay Regional District areas said RCMP Cst. Stathis Dimopoulos in a prepared media statement. "Yellow coloured cards titled "FINAL NOTICE" are being...

Many Hours of Meetings: On Monday, March 23, 2015, Rossland Council members (they were all present) started with an in camera meeting at 3:00 pm, devoted to labour issues,  then adjourned the in camera  session for a Committee-of-the-Whole (CoW) meeting at 4:00 pm.  The CoW was adjourned at 5:50 pm, and Council members re-fueled...

OUT IN THE GARDEN: Between showers of rain and hail, thunder and lightning, bursts of wind and sunshine -- spring is the time to start planning what to plant where, to clean up the garden beds,  start pulling unwanted weeds as they become evident -- before they spread and dominate your landscape entirely.   But before you get...

The man who knows a lot about the economy in BC is coming to Selkirk College Friday (March 27). Helmut Pastrick, Chief Economist for Central Credit Union 1, the central financial facility and trade association for the BC and Ontario credit union systems is speaking at the college thanks to Columbia Basin Rural Development...

By David Suzuki Cars, air travel, space exploration, television, nuclear power, high-speed computers, telephones, organ transplants, prosthetic body parts… At various times these were all deemed impossible. I’ve been around long enough to have witnessed many technological feats that were once unimaginable. Even 10 or 20 years...

It doesn’t take long for people to realize that we do things a little differently in the Kootenays.  In keeping with that long held Kootenay tradition, dance studio development in Rossland hasn’t followed the usual path. When Renée Salsiccioli set up her studio in Rossland about 7 years ago, she initially went  the conventional...

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a two men who died in an avalanche near McBride on Saturday (March 21) as Curtis Fries (pronouncer: freess), aged 36, of Sherwood Park, Alberta, and Thomas Hamilton, aged 29, of Ponoka, Alberta. Fries and Mr. Hamilton were two of a party of four who had travelled to the ...

A Kaslo RCMP officer hit the big time on Twitter-verse with a photo of him playing shinny in red serge on a mountaintop ice rink. "I'm actually very surprised . . . my thought was to take a photo of myself in serge with my personal camera for a personal screen saver, maybe a Christmas card," Corporal Shaun Begg of the Kaslo...

As celebrate United Nations International Day of Forests Saturday (March 21) Canada can feel proud that its forest products industry has become a world leader in environmental credentials.  For an industry that was admittedly once an environmental offender, the past few decades have been a remarkable journey. To start, the ...

Ainsworth Hot Springs Resort is getting a new owner. Chief Jason Louie made the announcement in a press release Thursday that the Lower Kootenay Indian Band is purchasing the popular tourist destination on Kootenay Lake in April 2015. The purchase price made available in the media release. Chief Louie said this is an important...