Nelson Fire Department reported that no one was injured after responding to a house fire a the 2300 block of Bealby Road Wednesday afternoon at Horlick’s Point east of Nelson. At approximately 3 p.m. the call came into the station that smoke was billowing from a two-bay detached garage and small building on the south […]

By The Nelson Daily Sports Marley Bassett of Nelson has won the right to the first ride heading up the new Glory Ridge triple chair at Whitewater Ski Resort. The twenty-something Bassett had the winning ticket during the raffle draw Monday at Whitewater. Bassett now joins two of friends on the first chair when the […]

By The Nelson Daily Sports It’s a rather small contingent of Nelson Leafs that heads to Fernie next month to attend the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League All Star weekend. Five players, including two veterans, made the grade to play in the All Star and Prospects games in January. Headlining the list is the Leafs’ […]

  Iconic holiday figure Santa Claus, aka St. Nick, aka Pere Noel, was thinking about folks in our region even more than usual this year, The Sourcediscovered in an annual interview with Claus yesterday. “I hear you’ve been having some bear problems in that neck of the woods,” he said. “We’ve been facing a similar problem here, […]

What a way to spend a morning! (See Cops get radio hosts drunk …for a cause story by clicking here). First, I want to say thanks to the Mountain FM team for allowing me to sit in on their unorthodox “social experiment”.   I’ll confess that, as I drove down to the radio station this […]

Introducing a new column for The Nelson Daily: Greening Up – What can I do? Michael Jessen has been following energy issues since the 1973 oil crisis. He has authored more than 700 newspaper and online articles about sustainable lifestyles, waste reduction, and climate change. Currently, Jessen is an efficiency and renewable energy advisor and operates […]

A 19-year-old man from Golden has been arrested and charged in the recent incidents in Nelson of a man propositioning women on the street for sex. Although he has been released on bail, the man, now living in Nelson, was arrested and charged Tuesday by Nelson Police with Section 152 of the Criminal Code with […]

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily The Waneta Dam expansion could create a legacy of skilled trades people for the West Kootenay region, says a Columbia Power spokesperson. Audrey Repin said with a guaranteed policy in place to hire apprentices on the jobsite, many of the over 400 new job hires could become journeymen trades […]

Ed. note: Every year on Christmas eve as young children, just before hanging our stockings on the mantel above the fireplace and heading off to bed our mother would read us The Night Before Christmas from a generations old hard-cover copy of the book. Now that my career has steadily moved further and further into […]

Now is the winter of our missed intent. 2011 is rapidly approaching--the time of the year when we take stock of our last 365 and submit ourselves to a brand of torture not condoned by even the nastiest masters of rendition and rough interrogation: we beat ourselves up for not penning that novel, slap our wrists for being wooed...