The amazing run for the Beaver Valley Nitehawks came to a crashing halt Sunday at the Cylcone Taylor Cup in Abbotsford. The Hawks lost 5-3 to Pacific Junior Hockey League champ, Delta Ice Hawks in the bronze medal game to finish fourth at the provincial junior B tournament. The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League rep […]

Earth Day is a day set aside each year on which events are held worldwide to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earth’s natural environment. The West Kootenay Coalition for Jumbo Wild wants to focus on the “natural environment” when the coalition joins with the rest of the Kootenays for a Pipeline-Free BC during the […]

A skier from Sweden who was thought to have been missing in the Ripple Ridge area, near the top of Salmo-Creston Summit has been located said Salmo and Nelson Rural RCMP in a release Friday. Bjorn Soderlund, who is staying in Nelson, is believed to be camping in the Golden/Revelstoke area and is to have […]

In the Garden of Poems Haida Gwai   There once was a sad season when clouds veiled us from our wanting. And one poem in the garden drowned in all the rain, died under the hood of our hearts.   As we huddle beneath this canopy, a storm rages and tosses trees in the surf. Leaning our backs against this ancient cedar, we talk ...

Leigh Ramsden lives in Vancouver and is an avid Canucks fan, having been a partial season ticket holder for over 10 years. He’s old enough to have witnessed all three Stanley Cup losses, as such, his prime goal is to remove those scars by seeing a Cup brought to Vancouver. Leigh is Fighting For Stanley’s […]

“Our airport is better.” “No, OUR airport is better.” “You’re not closing OUR school.” “Well, you’re sure not closing OURS. So there.” Every time I try to imagine how dialogue between Castlegar and Trail must sound to ministry officials at both the provincial and federal levels, I can almost hear the banjos playing in the […]

“…Silently the birds fly through us.” Rilke   We did not begin here, you and me –  hence, this forest is still fresh with magic; ferns are tiny breaths, nightflowers are harlequins, trees shake loose the stars, our voices flutter and swoop; we are innuendo.   and the birds, silently the birds fly through us. Almeda Glenn...

  This is the time of year for seasonal allergies, so, to minimize them, be alkaline!!  Alkalinity & acidity is based on the essential metabolic processes in the body.  These processes take place at the smallest cellular level.  Energy is acquired in humans by the breakdown or oxidation of large carbohydrates into smaller...

A 17-year-old Trail-area male pled guilty to 10 of 47 charges resulting from a months-long investigation involving local children being lured via the Internet, according to Trail RCMP Sgt. Rob Hawton. The plea came last week, with a sentencing date to be set May 16th, but Hawton said there’s still a chance more victims will […]

A Trial resident, 83-year-old Elisa Sidoni, was struck and killed by a recycling collection truck on Woodland Avenue in Trail last Thursday. “On  April 5, at shortly after 9 a.m., police, fire and ambulance attended to a motor vehicle incident on Woodland Avenue, where an elderly woman was struck by a recycling collection truck,” said RCMP […]