Snowfall warning in effect for overnight, Wednesday morning
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Get your shovels ready and start your snow blower engines, Nelson is squarely in the bull’s eye of a snowfall warning for tonight. Environment Canada is warning people that up to 15 centimetres of snow is expected tonight and into Wednesday morning as a moist frontal system currently over […]
Snow falling on sitars: Delhi 2 Dublin bring down the house
Fusion is a risky, tenuous proposition. Consider cold fusion, the oft-referenced solution to so many of our energy woes. In case you hadn’t heard, it’s an apparently impossible to replicate process. No energy security for you! More successful examples of unlikely fusings and musings have us enjoying the benefits of the...
Chronicles of Gnarnia: Volume 1 – Kootenay Pass
“It could be gnarly…It could be heinous…It could be ridiculous even.” From the lead trail breaker charging up the knife edge ridge down through the zigzagging line of skiers like a childhood game of telephone, the final decision of the day ran its course. In a game full of decision making that can determine whether you make...
10 Years of Freeskiing Stamina: Red gearing up for 10th anniversary of the Canadian Open Freeskiing Championships as the mountain prepares for opening day
With opening day at Red now officially announced for this Saturday, December 11th, Red is stoked to announce the 10th anniversary of the Canadian Open Freeskiing Championships this year. RED Mountain has been worked into the DNA of freeskiers over 10 years. From January 12-22nd, 2011, RED will see a worldwide contingency of...
December Fishing Report — Main Lake still going strong
Kootenay Lake: The main lake is still going! As I said last month this is the best time of year to go fishing, and I haven’t been proven wrong yet. November saw lots of big fish being caught again. These fish have definitely put on the feedbags before the winter cold. Rainbows up to 24 pounds and […]
NDP leader Carole James stepping down
VICTORIA — With British Columbia NDP leader Carole James announcing Monday she is stepping down over political infighting, the province’s two mainstream parties are now without a clear leader. Her resignation comes only weeks after B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell — whose popularity was driven down in part by the unpopular harmonized sales tax — announced […]
Movember concludes for Movember Mo' Panache
“Like sand through the hourglass, so too are the shaves of our lives.”-Fabrizzio Mioggia, world renowned moustachier Mo’vember 2010 has officially drawn to a close, the only remaining formalities a handful of gala parties in big bergs and metropolae where well connected Bay Street movers and shakers will handshake and...
Cost of future hospitals needs to be dealt with now: report
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Acute health care needs for people in the region will have to be addressed within the next three to six years as the requirement for a new regional hospital facility becomes imperative, warns a report from the regional district’s chief administrative officer. Regional District of Central Kootenay CAO Jim […]
Happy days are here again!
By Bruce Fuhr, The Nelson Daily Sports Generally the unofficial/opening day at Whitewater Ski Resort is a low-key opportunity for the staff to get a dry run of what is to be expected throughout the season. However, Whitewater staff got more than they bargained for as a parking lot full of riders took advantage of […]
Suspicious man making 'goat noises' to lure kids prompts RCMP warning
Police are warning parents to keep an eye out for a suspicious male who may have tried to lure local children near a Castlegar school. “On Thursday … at 6:45 p.m., three youths were sledding behind Castlegar Primary School when they observed a suspicious male hiding in the bushes watching them,” said RCMP Const. Tyler Mills. […]
