Sadly, an average of 34 people are killed and 7,110 injured in 4,740 crashes every December on B.C. roads, making it one of the highest months of the year for crashes. Now that the winter season has kicked into full swing on road conditions across B.C. driving can be both challenging and unpredictable. Which is […]

Team Canada made it look easy in the final of the Spengler Cup Monday, dumping the host club and defending champion HC Davos 7-2 to capture the title for the 12th time. Canada’s Patrice Bergeron, finishing the game with four points, scored 46 seconds into the game and Canada never looked back. It was Canada’s  […]

There was no million-dollar first prize or feature magazine story for the winner. But that doesn’t seem to be a concern to anyone in the Kootenays after the Whitewater/Red Mountain tag team captured bragging rights in the recent Powder Magazine Ski Town Throwdown contest to find the best ski towns in North America. “It validates […]

RCMP said downtown Kimberley was hit with a major fire Friday afternoon. Kimberley RCMP reported the fire started at approximately 5:45 p.m. and was contained to the building housing Kootenay Cycle Works. RCMP said the brick structure is still standing but the inside has been totally gutted while an adjacent business The...

Via Rail confirmed on its website that an elderly woman died Saturday of flu-like symptoms on a  train travelling from Vancouver to Toronto. The website said at approximately 5 a.m. Saturday, Train 2, which was travelling between Vancouver and Toronto, was delayed several hours near Parry Sound, Ontario, due to a medical...

At this time of year when the snow is deep and we take time to relax with family, what could be better than turning up the heat, and snuggling in with a blanket and popcorn to watch your all time favourite movie. The Lone Sheep family thought it might be nice to share the movies that we can watch - not just once, but again,...

2013 is just around the corner. And a few hours past the start of the New Year is the annual Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation Polar Bear Swim at Lakeside Park. It doesn’t matter if your a swimmer, floater, young or old, everyone is invited to take the New Year plunge to raise money to enhance […]

Canada and B.C. targeted funding to support business development, innovation, food safety, and sustainability under the Growing Forward agreement in the first quarter of 2012-13. Growing Forward is a five-year framework that co-ordinates federal, provincial and territorial agricultural policy. Between April 1 and June 30,...

Black Lotus Communications, which "prevents malicious traffic from reaching" websites, such as a Denial-of-service attack (DDoS), has announced their decision to donate revenue made from the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) to charity. The company has confirmed their intentions in a statement to Wikinews. "We have received...

Traditionally Doukhobor hymns and psalms are passed verbally from generation to generation and rarely recorded. But in the 1960s an unusual taped session sung by Anna Markova, daughter of Peter P. Verigin – Chistiakov and mother of John J. Verigin, was done. This unique recording has recently re-surfaced and has been re-mastered for the community. […]