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 […]

Many of the big names from years past in men’s curling have moved up a league are in Cranbrook this weekend to compete for zone bragging rights at the Senior Men’s Region 1-2 Curling Championships. Eight teams from throughout the Kootenays are shooting for an automatic berth in the provincials at the Trail Curling Club. […]

Going back to the scene of the crime is something a 29-year-old man may want to reconsider when laying out the groundwork for the next heist. Police apprehended the thief after the Nelson man returned to the scene of the crime during alcohol break-in at a local beer and wine store. The incident happened in […]

Castlegar RCMP have received several calls from concerned citizens due to another computer scam that is occurring. While on their computer, they have received a pop-up message complete with a siren wailing, warning them that their computer has been associated with child pornography and that in order to “unlock” their computer they need to pay […]