Five of the Kootenays’ finest musicians are reuniting this week for concerts in Rossland, Nelson, and Crawford Bay. The Kootenay Brass Quintet – featuring trumpeters Laurel Ralston and Tim Bullen, hornist Arnie Satanove, trombonist Keith Todd, and tubist Robin Clegg – will perform a fun, energetic, and diverse programme of ...

Gold! Pursuit of this precious metal was the economic driver behind the development of our region!  The Golden City was a boomtown - an American and a Canadian railway were extended into Rossland, the Trail smelter was built and the first hydroelectric power in the province was developed on the Kootenay River to supply power...

It’s less than 30 seconds into the opening song and I’m tearing up!  Beautiful harmonies can string up my heart and cause an embarrassing flood of emotion on any given day but really, John Han, the musical director (amongst just about everything else) for the Gold Fever Follies 2014 production OFF THE RAILS! has created...

The Rossland Telegraph recently offered another opportunity for residents of Rossland to gather and discuss another aspect of civic governance;  this time, the topic was how residents and the City could potentially ease and increase lines of communication between our City government and those it exists to represent and serve....

A 25-year-old Riondel man is presumed drowned after a swimming accident Monday afternoon, according to a press release issued by RCMP Staff Sgt. R.M. Gollan. “On June 30 at 4:43 pm, the Creston RCMP received a report of a swimming accident at Star Valley Cliff on Kootenay Lake just north of Grey Creek. Two men […]

The start of summer proved to be a busy weekend for Nelson Police as the department handled approximately 100 calls for service during the start of the Canada Day weekend. The most critical call involved a pedestrian being shot by an unknown assailant riding in a vehicle Saturday (June 28). Officers became involved in the […]

Dad was found dead with a fish in his talons. The mystery of what happened to the male osprey so many have come to know from the Nelson Hydro/Columbia Wireless nest webcam west of Nelson was solved Wednesday when the body of the bird was found in a deep ravine. “Yes, we’re relieved,” said Nelson Hydro line manager Doug Pickard....

The BC Coroners Service has released the name of the man found dead in Cottonwood Creek Thursday morning at Lance Garry Sparks. The 52-year-old Sparks, most recently of Nelson, was found by visitors to Cottonwood Park submerged near the waterfall of Cottonwood Creek. The next of kin has been notified. The BC Coroners Services...

Under good weather and even better company, students and parents from L’école des Septs-sommets gathered one last time this past Thursday. The Parent Advisory Council decided to carry on with their plans of offering its annual BBQ and potluck dinner, for the first time held at the school’s new location. Gratefully, the principal...

Despite agreeing to a tentative five-year contract earlier this month, more than 700 education support staff from CUPE 748 are walking the picket lines with their teacher colleagues. CUPE 748 members have been there right from the start of job action standing by the BC Teachers’ Federation and supporting their fellow union members. “Solidarity is […]