Police are asking any witnesses of a roadside arrest March 8 to please talk to police, according to RCMP Cpl. Ryan Fehler. “On March 8 at approximately 10:20 p.m., a member of the Slocan Lake RCMP attempted to execute a traffic stop with a camper van that was southbound on Hwy 6 near Hills, B.C.,” […]

Kootenay champion Myron Nichol is off to a sluggish start at the Williams Moving & Storage B.C. Mixed Curling Championships in Vancouver. Nichol, third Heather Nichol, both of Castlegar and Nelson’s Jamie (third) and Marlo (lead) Tedesco lost 8-4 to Keith Switzer and 9-4 to Fizz McKie during the first two draws Thursday. Switzer scored […]

By Suzy Hamilton, The Nelson Daily Forecasters at the Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) are warning Kootenay Boundary residents to avoid all avalanche terrain until after the weekend. The danger is high in both alpine and treeline terrain and considerable below treeline. This means that travelers should make careful snowpack evaluations down below and avoid travel […]

The West Kootenay Transit Committee (WKTC) received an update from BC Transit on the West Kootenay Regional Transit project on March 13. Kevin Schubert, Regional Transit Manager, outlined the gains that have been realized by the region working together. The highlights include: • Increased regional service which will add two more trips to the Nelson […]

Playoff hockey is returning to the NDCC Arena. Only the home team will not be wearing Green and White. The Selkirk Saints will be the new home team as the squad opens the BCIHL best-of-three championship Friday in the NDCC Arena against Simon Fraser University. The venue move was necessary after Castlegar Rebels defeated the […]

This time is was Castlegar’s turn to win a Game seven playoff series against the Beaver Valley Nitehawks. Still stinging from a crushing Game seven loss to the Hawks a year ago, the Rebels got to taste from the victory cup when Diego Bartlett put the puck past Beaver Valley netminder Jarrod Schamerhorn 15 minutes […]

The owner of a pair of dogs that mauled a cat in Rossland has been issued a $1000 fine and risks having his dogs labeled “dangerous” if another incident occurs, a distinction that comes with strict limitations to the dogs. A separate attack was also reported, but the owner, Dr. Roland Proctor, denies the second occurrence and...

The "Rattlecat Shred Posse" dug into Red Mountain last weekend for the hill's first-ever banked slalom snowboard event, sending 110 riders in timed runs down 35 steep corners carved into the gully on rider's left of the Face of Red. "It was a great time," said co-organizer Scott Reynolds who we caught up to at the Snowboard...

In my personal affairs these days there's been a real Spring climax of amazing new life. With luck, six of my eight does will have kids in a month or two. (The owner of the buck I borrowed this winter assured me of Bradley's vital mojo, but we'll see!) The chickens are laying again after a winter molt, the baby bunnies have...

Rossland’s new animal control bylaw blitzed through first, second, and third reading on Monday evening. Neither the press nor the mayor were present for the committee-of-the-whole meeting (COW) in which the new version of the animal bylaw was discussed—these meetings are open and advertised to the public—but the major change...