In honour of National Poetry Month, the Telegraph will be featuring a different poem each day all through April. Today's first installment is from Rossland's own Almeda Glenn Miller and it's called 'Growing nightmares'...featuring a theme that any Rossland gardener should be able to relate to on a wet and slushy April day......

On April 7, at approximately 09:25 a.m.,Salmo RCMP responded to a vehicle crash involving an automobile and a parked dump truck on Railway Avenue (Hwy 6) near 3 Street in Salmo. The male driver was transported to Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital by ambulance, where he was pronounced deceased. The male has been identified as 52-year-old […]

Nelson Police is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a thief that broken into the Bogustown Liquor Store last week, taking multiple bottles of hard alcohol before exiting the premises. The incident happened shortly after the liquor store located in the 700 block of Nelson Avenue in Fairview district closed for the night, at […]

The Columbia Avenue infrastructure project is going to cost more than our beloved mayor and former CAO proclaimed.  A lot more.  Our new, frequently absent and significantly overpaid CAO Cecile Arnott and Mayor Greg Granstrom have so far neglected, failed, or refused to inform council what the costs of the project have been...

After finishing 2nd and 3rd in two separate GS races at Silver Star resort in Vernon at the end of March, Jane's 1st and 4th pace in the slalom races were enough to clinch the BC U14 overall champion title. Jane continued her winning ways at the Whistler Cup with a 4th place in the Kinder Kombi, this past weekend, where she...

My son and I have been gluten-, dairy- and soy-free all his almost-15 years of life. I don’t mind admitting, when I first went gluten-free, I almost starved. I was scared to eat anything – I’m on the extreme end of the continuum in terms of celiac disease, and I was terrified of the pain […]

A small group of protesters trekked through the streets of Nelson joined others throughout Canada to protest the job Prime Minister Stephen Harper is doing. “Stephen Harper does not represent us,” Kootenay Direct Action Community (KDAC) said in a written press release. “We have lost confidence and it’s time for him to step-down from the […]

Gardeners and nature lovers from around the region will want to mark May 18 on their calendars for Castlegar’s Fourth Annual Garden and Nature Fest. The Castlegar Garden Club and Castlegar Communities in Bloom are partnering to sponsor this open-air festival at the Castlegar Community Complex (2101 6th Ave) from 10 a.m. To 3 p.m. […]

RCMP have two people in custody after the quiet Bavarian town of Kimberley got a taste of life in the big city witih a shooting Thursday (April 4). The incident happened at approximately 11 p.m. Thursday when RCMP received a report of shot fired at a residence in a drive-by shooting that occurred on Archibald […]

One of the first pieces I wrote for this space focused on self-talk. The kind of conversation I might have with myself when seeing someone standing or sitting on the street, looking worn down and asking for a contribution from my pocket to his or her hat. Self-talk says a great deal about world-view. I can wonder how that...