LETTER: Voice your opinion about the Cooke site
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...
"Passing Through the Missing Pages"--tonight at the museum!
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 ...
Kelowna man convicted of killing Nelsonite appeals for new trial
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. […]
Smokies Blanked By Centennials Tuesday
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 […]
UPDATED: Coroners release the name of Sunday's accident victim
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 […]
TALES AND LEGENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN KINGDOM: Arthur “Slim” Evans forms Local 480 in Rossland
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...
Motorhome rolls down embankment - grandmother/children uninjured
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 […]
Grand Forks woman killed near Westbridge
UPDATED Margaret Arnet McMurtrie, 85, of Grand Forks was killed on Sunday, Sept. 15 in a single-car rollover. The accident happened on Hwy. 33, 14 km North of Westbridge. The accident happened in the early afternoon after the car went off the road and rolled in the ditch. McMurtrie was declared deceased at the […]
Saints start Alberta test with weekend sweep of Keyano College Huskies
The Selkirk College Men’s Hockey program began a five-game preseason schedule against Alberta college league opponents on a winning note this weekend, sweeping a two-game series with Fort McMurray-based Keyano College. Dylan Smith scored in overtime to spark the Saints to a thrilling 7-6 victory over the Keyano College Huskies at the NDCC Arena in […]
RDCK decides to walk away from financial incentives offered by Multi Material BC recycling program
While the City of Nelson had decided to agree to the financial incentives offered by the BC Government’s Multi Material BC, the Regional District of Central Kootenay has not. Monday, the RDCK will decline the financial incentives offered by Multi Material BC (MMBC) to continue to provide recycling services in the region. “Declining the incentives […]
