If you are headed west to the Boundary country or north to the Arrow Lakes region this long weekend don’t take your matches or lighter with you. The tinder dry aspects of those regions — and not much in the way of moisture coming in the next while — means the fire danger in those […]

A dressing down of a City bylaw officer landed a man in jail Thursday afternoon. The 31-year-old Nelson man took umbrage around 4 p.m. with a bylaw officer who had approached him about a parking infraction. The male began to verbally abuse the female officer using offensive, degrading and profane language.  He then threatened violence […]

Some of the nation’s top municipal leaders will descend on Nelson next week as the Heritage city plays host to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ (FCM) national board of directors meeting. With parliament set to return, the 75-member board  — which includes Nelson Mayor John Dooley — will discuss municipal priorities from Sept. 7-10, including […]

This morning was a weird one for Trail RCMP, involving sunburns, violence and full-frontal nudity, all in the space of about two hours. Trail RCMP Cpl. Mike Wilson said EMS (ambulance services) got a call at roughly 1:20 a.m., from a man who was in pain from sunburn. Apparently, the man warned dispatchers that the […]

A Castlegar man in his 60s is facing sexual assault charges after a bizarre incident on Columbia Avenue Friday. According to RCMP Cpl. Deb Postnikoff, a 24-year-old woman attended the Castlegar police station Friday at about 5 p.m., reporting that a man she didn’t know had approached and accosted her. “Apparently he invited her to […]

It’s back to school Tuesday for students across the province. But the school term may be a lot shorter than the normal 10 months if B.C. teachers stand firm on job action after the provincial body served 72-hour strike notice for Sept. 6. The B.C. Teachers Federation said Wednesday during a press conference it would […]

Thirty six campfires were left unattended or abandoned by careless campers on the weekend, Southeast Fire Centre officials found. A total of 245 campfire incidents have been reported in the Southeast Centre area, above the five-year average for this time of year at 171. Considering the tinder dry conditions prevailing in the West Kootenay-Boundary region […]

With a large percentage of West Kootenay-Boundary people still plugged into free television, an important deadline is looming. The transition to digital TV is coming this September. Over-the-air TV signals switch to digital from analog transmission as of Thursday morning in most major cities across Canada. The federal government and the CRTC mandated the change […]

Nelson’s James Forrest Kienholz has been identified as the man killed in the small float plane crash near Nakusp last Wednesday. Kienholz, 64, was longtime Leafs scorekeeper and an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed fishing and snowshoeing in the winter. From the 1970s to 1990s Kienholz played goal and defence in the Western International and Kootenay […]

Squeaking in under the deadline wire, Boundary Sawmills Inc. (BSI) secured a loan this week for $1 million to complete the Midway mill purchase.  Working with the Heritage Credit Union over the weekend, Doug McMynn, president of BSI, said they were able to not only cover their outstanding debt to Fox Lumber Sales Ltd., but […]