The club’s been having a great year so far and is looking forward to another 70+ days of fantastic skiing. We have been grooming consistently since Nov 3, and if all goes well, expect to groom into late April or early May.  That means cross-country skiing for exactly half the year! We have 701 members this year, our 2nd highest...

Poplar Grove winemaker Stefan Arnason will bring 4 of the winery's award-winning wines to the Rossland Rotary Club 25th Annual Wine Festival on February 22, 2014, including 2011 Reserve Chardonnay and 2009 Merlot. The 2009 Merlot has full aromas of raspberry, blueberry & cocoa. Ripe smooth tannins & balanced acidity...

Canada continued to build on its medal total with three more medals Monday at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Alex Bilodeau won his second straight gold medal in Olympic moguls with teammate Mikael Kingsbury capturing the silver. The Canadians narrowly missed sweeping the podium as Marc-Antoine Gagnon finished fourth. Earlier...

John Morris came within a few shots of competing for Canada at the Sochi Olympics. The Kelowna skip is now off to his seventh Brier – his first representing BC — after hammering Jason Montgomery of Victoria 11-2 in Sunday’s BC Championship final in Vancouver. Morris and his rink from the Kelowna and Vernon curling […]

Nelson City Police were busy during the Family Day Holiday weekend dealing with a few alcohol related incidents, which led a some intoxicated people spending time in cells. During the early Sunday morning hours with pubs winding down operations, dispatch received a call of several drunk patrons harassing a doorman at a local drinking establishment. […]

Beaver Valley Nitehawks held serve against the Nelson Leafs in the race to finish on top of the Murdoch Division in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. Ryan Edwards snapped a 1-1 tie with a power play goal late in the third period to lift the Hawks to a 2-1 victory over the Leafs in […]

Mike Thomas is the first municipal employee in British Columbia to be qualified to rate civil engineering projects using the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure’s Envision™ rating system, providing the City of Revelstoke with an industry-recognized framework to evaluate and rate the social, environmental and economic...

Nelson captain Darnel St. Pierre said before the weekend series against Beaver Valley there is a “really strong leadership group” in the Leafs dressing room. Those leaders stepped up big time, scoring three power play goals en route to a convincing 6-2 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League triumph over the Hawks Friday night at the […]

Barack Obama, Pope Francis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and organizations like Oxfam and the World Health Organization are all saying it: Inequality is the greatest concern of our time. So what’s it going to take for our governments to act? Dr. Gary Bloch, a family physician in Toronto and a founding member of Health...

Nelson Nordic Ski Club hosted the Teck Kootenay Cup #5 cross country ski race on February 2nd.  We had a record 125 participants from ages 4 through 60.  The race was a free style mass start design so we had lots of competitors across the start line. The course looped its way around the hills by our lodge and spectators had...