Avalanche Awareness Day is planned for Saturday, January 16, 10 AM to 3 PM, outside the Base Lodge at Red Mountain Resort. This free event, hosted by Rossland & District Search and Rescue, offers hands-on avalanche safety gear clinics, competitions for kids, demonstrations, races, and prizes. Those interested should dress...

To The Editor: January 8, 2016   Premier Christy Clark PO Box 9041 Stn Prov Govt Victoria, BC V8W 9E1   Dear Premier Clark: The Province’s upcoming submission to the National Energy Board regarding Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain proposal provides an opportunity for your government to show leadership on B.C.’s economic and...

The Hume room of the Hume Hotel in Nelson was packed with cannabis activists Thursday as Women Grow officially kicked off their Kootenay chapter. The event was hosted by Kaleigh Herald and Tanya Shelestynski of the Kootenays Medicine Tree, and featured talks by industry leaders Jim Leslie, Brynn Jones, Darrin Fiddler and...

RCMP Cpl Jason Burndred has good news in the case of the missing person from Winlaw. In a media release Sunday afternoon, Burndred said 16-year-old Quinlan Kruse has been found after going missing Friday. "Quinlan Kruse has been located and is well," Burndred said in the release. Brundred said RCMP wanted to thank everyone ...

Students in Selkirk College’s School of Health & Human Services are starting the new year by giving back to peers who struggle to make ends meet while gaining an education. Partnering with the student athletes on the Selkirk College Saints, the second annual food drive will take place on Friday (January 8) during an exhibition […]

While Interior Health is preparing to welcome a large number of refugees fleeing the crisis in Syria to Canada, and help ease the transition into new lives there, there is no word yet if any at all will land in the West Kootenay. “We know how many people are landing in Toronto but we don’t know what their destination is,"...

I’ve wracked my brain on this issue, but I can’t see any other way to get the government’s attention on this issue, the issue being what I perceive to be outrageous delays in IIO investigations of officer-involved fatal shootings in our area (for the background story, click here): I think the RCMP members in question […]

New research at the University of Leicester, UK, has demonstrated a link between higher levels of sugar in the blood and higher blood pressure.  This may not be enough to convince readers that eating sugar is a bad thing, but much earlier research has suggested many other reasons to cut down drastically on sugar intake.  Let's...

CBC calls Trent Arterberry’s physical comedy gifts “amazing” Trent Arterberry brings extraordinary mime and theatre work to two of his original shows at The Charles Bailey Theatre Saturday Jan 16 and Sunday January 17.   A fine way to beat the mid-January blahs! Saturday January 16 at 7:30----Funny and thought provoking, ‘My...

John Ferguson of the West Kootenay Traffic Services said police is concerned heading into the New Year after RCMP saw an increase in impaired driving charges in 2015. "Our impaired driving charges increased by 35 percent and our 1, 3 and 7 day alcohol suspensions increased by 100 per cent," Ferguson said in a year-end media...