Avalanche risks are climbing as new snow and wind change up the stability of the snowpack, says the Canadian Avalanche Centre.  Predicting continued flurries with wind through Tuesday, one of the Centre’s forecasters, James Floyer, says that a widespread cycle of small avalanches (size 1) have occurred in the most recent storm...

With abundant snow, more on the way and temperatures holding steady, the seven dog sled teams competing in the 2012 Rail Trail 200 Dog Sled Race headed out on the trails with an optimistic air, Friday, Jan. 20. The race, which is now in it's third year, had seven sled teams from across Western Canada -- one more than last...

Fernie, BC: Three levels of government support for the Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) were represented today, as BC MLA Bill Bennett announced a three-year program aimed at lowering the rate of avalanche deaths within the mountain snowmobiling community. Joining MLA Bennett in the announcement was Kootenay-Columbia MP David...

 The City of Castlegar is putting out an early tender for the roughly $2.3-million Phase Two of the airport-lands-servicing project, after an unanimous vote at council’s regular meeting Monday evening. “This is where we connect the pipe (recently installed spanning Kinnaird bridge during Phase One) at either end – on one end to the city’s […]

I absolutely applaud a resolution Mayor Lawrence Chernoff announced Monday that he’d be bringing forward to council next meeting to consider bringing to the Association of Kootenay Boundary Local Governments and from there, if it passes, to the Union of BC Municipalities and then to the provincial government. In effect, the resolution will ask that […]

By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily Staff and management at Whitewater Resort must have put in a call to Mother Nature prior to applying the finishing touches to the 2012 Winter Carnival weekend. Why else would the lovely lady dump 125 plus centimeters on the hill in January to make the scenery wintry and conditions excellent. […]

Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke lost her battle nine days after crashing at the bottom of the superpipe during a training run in Utah, dying Thursday at the age of 29.Burke was injured Jan. 10 while training at a personal sponsor event at the Park City Mountain resort. The native of Squamish, B.C. fell during […]

Champions are among us! If you know someone who has played a significant role in promoting tobacco free living why not give them a pat on the back and nominate them for a Smoke Free Champions for Change Award?These Interior Health awards honour people who have made a difference in the lives of others by promoting smoke-free...

A backpack containing 18 pounds of drug ecstasy valued at $135,000 was found abandoned along the border just west of Danville on Monday. The United States Border Patrol seized the “designer” drug and $14,000 in American currency near the port of entry on the American side. The ecstasy was packaged in powder form. Agents discovered […]

 January 18 was an important day for the Internet. Corporate websites, from Google to Twitpic, along with civil society groups and individuals, have all joined together in a common cause: to protest two American bills that could have grave effects for global online free expression. As Global Voices' Executive Director ...