Do you like your bike? Then with the warmer weather finally arriving, it’s time for cyclists to protect their ride as the increase in bike riders comes and increase of bike thefts. While a theft of your investment can take just moments, the inconvenience and financial loss will last much longer. Here are a few […]

Quick reponse by a thoughtful neighbour may have saved a North Shore family from possibly life-threatening injury following a roof fire Thursday (May 10) at 4230 Highway 3A nine miles north of Nelson. At approximately 4:50 p.m., North Shore Fire Department received a call of a fire on Crescent Bay Road after a neighbour noticed […]

A few days of warmer temperatures led to a shift from accumulating snowpack to melting resulting in rising river levels across the Southern Interior this week, putting the Kootenay / Boundary regions on flood alert. The high stream advisory was posted by the B.C. River Forecast Centre on Thursday as they anticipate continued...

By Nyree Marsh, The Nelson Daily Kootenay gardeners have a fantastic new place to get everything they need to make their garden inspirations come to life; Dig Garden Centre just celebrated its Grand Opening at Playmor Junction in the South Slocan. Conveniently located between Nelson and Castlegar, Dig owners Mark and Lori Loran, have created […]

Three grizzly bears had to be destroyed and a fourth relocated in a five-day time-frame last week, according to CBC’s Kootenay reporter, Bob Keating. Keating, who broke the story today (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/05/10/bc-grizzlies-kootenay-sheep-kill.html), said he was alerted to the issue by conservation officer supervisor Sgt. Arnold DeBoon. “He (DeBoon) wants people to know what what happened here […]

Here are some exciting things you can do!  Keeping the body as alkaline as we can is important, so, it can detoxify all the breakdown products and move them out through the feces and urine. One of the ways to keep the system alkaline is to eat dark green leafy veggies and other veggies (other […]

Several vehicular incidents kept police on their toes this past week, according to Castlegar RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew. Tuesday evening at around 6:20 p.m., a 30-wheel freightliner transport truck was driving near the 100 block of Highway 3 toward Grand Forks, when he saw a couple of cyclists, Mathew said. “According to the driver, he […]

[Editor's note: This weekly feature comes to you courtesy of Rossland City council via Coun. Jody Blomme who's the point person for the Communications Task Force assigned to this project] The results are in, the decisions have been made and the Columbia Washington project is underway. The City of Rossland’s share of the total...

Council has approved a multi-million dollar contract with Copcan Contracting Ltd. for the renovation of Columbia Ave. and Washington St. up to First Ave.—Rossland's biggest single project ever—as negotiated by CAO Victor Kumar and contract administrator Kevin Terness of ISL Engineering.The final project cost to the city of ...

Councillors applauded the high level of participation and the quality of data made available by the survey on school options for Rossland recently administered by the Neighbourhood of Learning (NOL) committee.The survey received input from 520 households on a wide range of issues around the potential for school closures in ...