The teenager accused of making threats last Friday at Mount Sentinel High School in South Slocan made an appearance Wednesday in BC Provincial Court in Nelson. Denver Skey, 18, was in court to hear charges of two counts of uttering threats. The threats resulted in administration locking down the high school as well as sending...

Feeling stressed?   Is the world too much with you?  Some laughter would help.  Let down your hair, if you have any, and go see the 2016 version of the Gold Fever Follies, at the old Bank of Montreal building on the corner of Columba and Washington. Opening night  was delightful.  The talented and energetic Follies cast and...

Rossland City Council meeting, June 27, 2016 Present:    Mayor Kathy Moore,  and Councillors Andrew Zwicker, Andy Morel, Marten Kruysse, John Greene, Lloyd McLellan and Aaron Cosbey. Public Input Period:  A resident  had been reading the Annual Report, and wondered about its failure to mention the tennis courts.  She said the...

Rossland City Hall reminds residents of Stage 2 watering restrictions, which begin each year on June 15 and continue until September 30 -- or later, if conditions warrant, or until further restrictions on watering become necessary because of drier conditions. Here's the schedule as stated in the City's bylaw and recently...

Officials at Mount Sentinel Secondary School have indicated the school will remain closed Tuesday. They issued the following bulletin on their website at 5 p.m. Monday: “Mount Sentinel Secondary School will be open for staff members. “As this  decision came late in the day today (Monday, June 27) there will be no school for students […]

A legal challenge to the constitutional validity of Bill C-14 has been filed.   In a unanimous decision last year,  Canada's highest court declared that the Criminal Code provisions against physician-assisted dying  "are of no force or effect to the extent that they prohibit physician-assisted death for a competent adult...

Summer has arrived and this coming Friday we celebrate our country’s 149th birthday. As we look to the year ahead and get closer to Canada’s 150th birthday, now is a good time to reflect on some of the great things that we have accomplished as a nation.  But we can’t rest on our laurels, as there is still much work that remains...

Nelson Police officers were kept busy Sunday afternoon with two potentially dangerous calls dealing with firearms complaints in the city. Nelson Police Sergeant Paul Bayes said the two incidents occurred in Rosemont and Jam Factory Lane near Vernon Street, with the latter resulting in charges to two males. “Both males were ...

The Balfour Ferry Terminal, and the Balfour Ferry have been in the news of late. So has the crazy June weather. Rudy Benno saw a little bit of everything from his Queens Bay cottage as he caught the Balfour Ferry fighting through a recent storm on Kootenay Lake. Benno took a few pictures of the Balfour Ferry making its way ...

Concerned citizens opposed to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure plans to relocated the Balfour Terminal want elected officials to designate the area a regional park a member of a steering committee coordinating residents and businesses said in a media release. The information came after 125 local residents and...