Rossland councillors have relinquished significant responsibilities and authority to staff. The Procedure Bylaw establishes the rules to be followed by council when conducting their business. Council recently approved changes to the Procedure Bylaw and rescinded policies, the net effect of which is to reduce their ability to...

The Recreation Department will be working on the Spring Brochure in the next two weeks.  If you would like to run a program with the REC Department, please give us a call or drop by to discuss your ideas.  The deadline for submitting a program description is Friday, Feb. 10. With Winter Carnival at the end of the month, the...

For the third year in a row Selkirk College and the Kootenays will benefit from the Province of British Columbia’s Employment Skills Access Initiative (ESA), with nearly $675,000 in funding. This year the funding will be put toward the delivery of Administrative Skills Training (AST) and Early Childhood Care Education Assistant (ECCE) programs. This year […]

Police are asking for witnesses to come forward if they saw Friday night’s car accident on Hwy 3A near Thrums, according to RCMP Cpl. John Ferguson. “(On Jan. 13) at (about) 5:18 p.m., the Castlegar RCMP and West Kootenay Traffic Services responded to a two-car, head-on collision on Highway 3A, Thrums area,” he said. “A […]

By Bill Metcalfe, The Nelson Daily  Nelson is a hotbed of cooperatives—the Nelson and District Credit Union, the Kootenay Coop, the Kootenay Bakery, Kootenay Co-op Radio, Kootenay Carshare, and the list goes on. This is their year to shine, because 2012 is the International Year of Cooperatives, with celebrations and events locally and across the […]

By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily Sports The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League has commenced an investigation into a deadline deal gone bad between the Nelson Leafs and Osoyoos Coyotes involving 19-year-old forward Josh Gray. “Right now (Josh Gray) is still part of Kimberley but he can’t play at this time,” KIJHL president Bill Ohlhausen told […]

Nelson City Police have charged a 45-year-old Nelson man with Resisting Arrest and Possession of a Controlled Substance. In the early hours of Thursday, January 12th, a Nelson Police officer observed a driver commit several traffic violations. The officer attempted to stop the vehicle however it fled and attempted to evade police. After a short […]

 A former BC Ambulance Services (BCAS) paramedic says he thinks the situation that saw Castlegar without ambulance coverage over the holidays (see http://castlegarsource.com/news/bc-ambulance-services-speak-lack-castlegar-coverage-over-holidays-16050) is symptomatic of a much larger problem. Jason Angulo was with BCAS for just under four years, serving in Prince Rupert and Vernon, then resigning in May 2010.   Angulo said paramedics […]

Jayden Roch dropped in a game-high 13 points to spark the L.V. Rogers Bombers to a convincing 41-14 victory over the Stanley Humphries Rockers in West Kootenay Senior Girl’s Basketball League action Thursday at the Hangar. The Bombers, registering the first win of the New Year after four straight defeats, were in control from the […]

In a recent Vancouver Sun article, the reporter wrote a story about an 82-year-old motorist in Cranbrook who was alleging she was treated unfairly by the RCMP with respect to being stopped for suspected impaired driving and refusing to provide a breath sample. Some other media outlets picked up this story.  Unfortunately, the writer did […]