To: Honourable Margaret MacDiarmid – Minister of Education   Since September 2008, S.D.20 (Kootenay-Columbia) engaged its staff and communities in a Planning for the Future process to determine how best to use its facilities in order to ensure that maximum funds flow to classrooms and educational programs. Educational priorities have always been our main concerns and this is evident in the completed […]

Nelson police have identified a person of interest in the case involving an apparent sexual predator trying to lure women over the past two months. Nelson Sgt. Howie Grant said, however, that women should still be very vigilant. “(Be) observant, walk/jog in pairs, and carry a cell phone,” he cautioned. “Call 9-1-1 immediately if approached […]

By Bruce Fuhr,The Nelson Daily Sports Another B.C. Major Midget Hockey League team realized the hard way there are no easy games to be had in the Kootenays. The Kootenay Ice took three of four points from the North Island Silvertips in BCMMHL action during the weekend in Castlegar. The Ice road the red hot […]

By The Nelson Daily Sports Vernon will have some strong representation at the upcoming B.C. Men’s Curling Championship after the Aron Herick and Darin Heath rinks of the Central Okanagan City qualified for the provincial tournament followings wins at the Men’s Interior playdowns Sunday in Kamloops. Herick, third Tobin Senum, second Marc Fillion and lead […]

 The looming February deadline for the removal of Castlegar’s ultrasound machine to Trail is no more …and, in fact, never existed at all, according to Interior Health’s Thalia Vesterback. “That wasn’t our intention at all,” Vesterback said. “I think we created some of that confusion by saying we were suspending the decision to move the […]

The fissures between area communities over what to do with our schools made themselves visible Monday evening at the SD20 School Board meeting. Fiery and emotional rhetoric came from trustees and the public alike as the board voted , 5-3, to delay public meetings in January and re-frame its discussions around educational...

Following three design charettes hosted by the city’s planning department over the past year, the City has now come back with its report and recommendations. Looking at the stretch of Columbia Avenue between the Miners' Hall and St. Paul Street, the intent is to modify and enhance our downtown's amenity appeal while improving...

 After hearing the perspectives of many of the key players in the latest round of nastiness inspired by School District 20’s (SD 20’s) Planning for the Future document, I can only conclude that the well-being of the entire region is at stake, and in more far-reaching issues than education alone. The angry rhetoric being wantonly […]

Our downtown core’s century-old infrastructure may soon be getting an upgrade and a facelift to the tune of an estimated six million dollar Columbia Avenue rebuild project if the public agrees with the city’s proposed borrowing process. That said, the project, originally slated for 2010, will now likely be bumped to the summer...

Fresh from the stale surroundings of tourist-laden Cancun, Mexico, Sustainability Commission member Aaron Cosbey checked in with the Telegraph this week to bring us up to speed on the environmental side of the local sustainability coin.   While ‘fatigued’ may not be the best descriptor to characterize Cosbey’s post-conference...