As things heat up and the prime beer drinking season of the year arrives, locals could see higher prices for their favourite local craft beers – as brewers say new liquor regulations by the province are raising prices for their products at private liquor stores. The Victoria Times Colonist reports that the B.C. Liquor...

Paul Kerr of Kimberley can thank his lucky stars after two mountain bikes found the missing Bavarian City man Tuesday evening. Kerr, 45, had been missing since Sunday after heading out from Kimberley for a ride over the remote gravel Gray Creek Pass. Monday SARS teams from Cranbrook, Kimberley, Sparwood, Fernie, Creston and...

Columbia Power is a sponsor of Wildsight’s Classrooms with Outdoors  – an environmental education program geared to intermediate students throughout the Columbia Basin, including students in Castlegar. Last week, Kinnaird Elementary Grades 4, 5 and 6 hiked the Merry Creek Trail system near Castlegar to learn more about this...

A missing Blewett man has been found said Cpl. Michael Stefani of the Nelson RCMP Wednesday (June 17). Stefani said in a media release that 42-year-old was located Tuesday evening in the west of Copper Mountain Forrest Service Road in Blewett. "At approximately 2020 hours (Tuesday) June 16th, Nelson Search and Rescue called...

British Columbia Southern Interior, NDP MP Alex Atamanenko says goodbye to his time representing the riding during the closing of the 41st Parliament in Ottawa. Mr. Alex Atamanenko (British Columbia Southern Interior, NDP):       Mr. Chair, as always, when I get up here, there is a standing ovation.   This has been quite a ...

Even Game six of the Stanley Cup Playoffs could not stop more than 120 anglers from leaving their televisions to fill the Balfour Community Hall in Balfour Monday to listen to answers on how Forest Lands and Natural Resource Operations (FLNRO) biologists plan to address the recovery of the Kootenay Lake fishery. “We are...

Selkirk College is opening doors to multi-industry opportunities by offering an additional intake for the popular Plant Operator Program. Based out of Nelson’s Silver King Campus, the 24-week Plant Operator Program prepares students for entry level positions in a multitude of areas like oil & gas, refineries, pulp mills,...

By Zaynab Mohammed, The Nelson Daily The Heritage City is going to see a lot more teachers roaming around in the downtown core after the West Kootenay Teacher Education Program decided to move its operations from Castlegar to Nelson in September. For the past 26 years the WKTEP has been located at Castlegar’s Selkirk College....

Nelson RCMP and Nelson Search and Rescue conducted a ground search of the area around the residence on Blewett Road and the Kootenay Canal/Rover Creek area Saturday evening.    Nelson RCMP said to date no signs of Joe Moyer, age 42, have been located.    Friends and family advised they will be conducting their own searches ...

Smoke from the Cisco Road Fire near Lytton is drifting into the Southeast Fire Centre and residents may continue to see smoke from that blaze as firefighting crews work to suppress it. Depending on the prevailing winds, smoke can travel long distances. Although there may be dense smoke visible in certain areas of the Southeast...