Does your new house plan include solar exposure as a significant design component? If not, you – or your architect, engineer, and contractor – should be preparing to attend the Passive House Design and Construction workshop scheduled for Cranbrook from October 7-11. Nelson designer and builder Lukas Armstrong will showcase ...

By Suzy Hamilton, The Nelson Daily When it comes to complaining about the province’s new recycling plan, Regional District of Central Kootenay Chair John Kettle is not alone. He is among a number of unhappy local politicians from 196 communities attending the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) annual meeting this week in Vancouver who discussed […]

The upcoming ‘Pantlers and Pelts’ art show at the Rossland Art Gallery (RAG) will be a showcase for the unconventional, a departure from the ‘norm’ when it comes to what many might expect of locally produced fine art.   Organizer Tyler Austin Bradley refers to the works in the show, which runs from September 27 to October 13,...

Deaer editor,   This letter is about an important issue which applies to our businesses. Our businesses continue to struggle because we pay high taxes and the population is not increasing. Recently closing the High School has made our survival even harder.  We need more people in Rossland and more revenue coming in to our...

The Rossland Historical Museum had Takaia Larsen here on Sept. 5th, as our first presenter in our "War, Murder and Graves: Stories and Legends of the West Kootenays" historical lecture series.  Takaia's presentation was titled: "Women, Work and Memory in Trail, BC During and After World War Two".   Women working at Cominco ...

A 20-year-old cold case of a former Nelson resident may be heading back to trial. CBC reported Wednesday the Kelowna man convicted of killing Nelson’s Jennifer Cusworth, Neil George Snelson, has appealed to B.C. Court for a new trial. Snelson was convicted of killing Cusworth in 2011 and handed a 15-year sentence. Cusworth, a L.V. […]

Scott Patterson scored three times, and Devin Kero pitched a 28-save shutout as the Merritt Centennials upended the Smoke Eaters 5-0 in Trail Tuesday. The loss was Trail’s third on home ice to start the season and for the second consecutive game, the home side outshot its opposition only to draw a blank on the […]

The BC Coroners Service has released the name of the woman killed in Sunday’s car crash near Beasley. She was Katherine Claire Hiles, aged 31, of Winlaw. “Ms. Hiles was the driver of a car which was involved in a head-on collision with a Jeep on Highway 3A, near the intersection with Curtis Road near […]

Just when I thought I’d uncovered every exciting personality to ever grace the streets of Rossland back in the day, I happened to make a spur of the moment trip to a rather well known Vancouver used book store, famous for not only its crammed shelves, but its crammed aisles, nooks, and crannies as well. I’m talking about...

At approximately 1:48 p.m. Sept. 15, the Nelson RCMP attended to a collision on Blewett Road, where a large white Ford motor home rolled down the embankment near Carlson Road as it was eastbound, according to RCMP Cpl. Michael Stefani “Apparently a westbound vehicle was on or over the centre line and possibly contributed to […]