Two West Kootenay rinks are going have a distinct advantage next month at the 2013 Tim Horton’s BC Seniors Curling Championship in the Silver City. Nelson’s Tom Shypitka and Castlegar Myron Nichol won the right to represent the zone at the provincial championships after winning the A and B event title, respectively during the Senior […]

Offence was always going to be a concern for the Nelson Leafs after rookie sensation Colton McCarthy left to join Moose Jaw of the Western Hockey League in early December. For some reason McCarthy brought out the best in his teammates, and really helped power the offence. It was the offence that struggled Sunday afternoon […]

Rust was definitely a problem as the Selkirk Saints opened the second half of the B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League season. Mason Spear rescued the Saints undefeated record, allowing the Castlegar-based school to set a new league record by scoring the winner with just over three minutes remaining in the third period to lift Selkirk to […]

The January 14 City Council meeting agenda shows that councillors will be dealing with numerous serious issues: speeding on Thompson Avenue, animal control bylaw, smoking regulations, child care lease renewal, and a few other things. However, in a section of the agenda titled Requests Arising from Correspondence, there is but...

Motorists may not see the technology working on a sunny winter afternoon, but should road conditions deteriorate the new road signs at both entrances to the Beasley bluffs will warn drivers of the dangers ahead. “They’re now up and running,” Hugh Eberle, District Operations Manager 
for the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure told The Nelson […]

AMEC, one of the world’s leading engineering, project management and consultancy companies, recently decided to dip into the grass roots of the country to donated $1,000 West Kootenay-based Selkirk College.  “AMEC has been donating annually to Selkirk for 14 years now and we are committed to providing support whenever possible,” says AMEC GM, Eric MacFarlane. […]

Dear editor, Although we reside in southwest Ontario near Guelph, my wife and I share great affection for Rossland. A decade and a half ago, with she between jobs and me on a sabbatical from my teaching career, we decided to spend a year in the mountains of southern B.C. with our children – and chose Rossland. Indeed, our son...

Dear Rossland City Councilors, I am baffled by the Mayor calling a public meeting and then having nothing specific to say.  He acknowledges  that “mistakes were made” but can’t say what they were. He says there have been changes but can’t identify any specifically. Most outrageously, he continues to say that there is no...

The long and the short of last weekend’s  Beaver Valley/Trail Smokies bus incident resuts in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League president Bill Ohlhausen handing Hawks’ skipper Terry Jones a three-game suspension and a small $100 fine. BC Hockey conducted an investigation into the matter but it seems the final decision on discipline was left up […]

Ed. Note: A quote in this editorial alludes to a vulgar cuss-word. If a reader finds that troublesome, please read no further.  I’m guessing lots of people in the tri-city area remember Australian deejay Drex, of the Drex and Johnson morning radio show on Mountain FM. Drex, whose real name is Justin Wilcomes, left our […]