Grand Forks RCMP has successfully arrested four methamphetamine drug dealers across the Boundary region in the last month.   “The latest arrest was yesterday (Wednesday, Oct. 20) and it was a man from Greenwood who was active selling meth in our community,” reported Staff Sergeant Jim Harrison of the Grand Forks detachment. “He was arrested […]

Former Governor General of Canada Adrienne Clarkson was in town this week, conducting interviews for a book she’s planning to publish next year. Entitled Room For All Of Us, the book will focus on a variety of immigrant populations coming out of places of struggle, how coming to Canada impacted them, and how they themselves […]

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily It’s a zero waste event with a definite upside. Trash to Treasure Day (T2T) is about turning your trash, or someone else’s, into treasure and reusing what might have been thrown out. This Saturday residents in the Regional District of Central Kootenay, including Nelson, will be depositing unwanted, but […]

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily The City of Nelson is the odd municipality out in the establishment of a community sustainable living service in the regional district. Alternative approval process will be used to obtain the assent of the electors to establish the service in every area of the regional district except Nelson. City […]

The Grand Forks RCMP are continuing their efforts in locating 24-year-old Owen Kiernan Rooney. Rooney, originally from Australia, was last seen at the Grand Forks Hospital on Aug. 14. He was last seen at approximately 8:00 p.m. that evening sitting outside on a picnic table on the west side of the Boundary Hospital.   Update: […]

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Nelson saw the greatest influx of new residents into the city in 10 years, according to the results of the Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce’s Nelson and Area New Resident Survey. And the figures show they are young. In 2010, 263 new families representing 585 new people relocated […]

 A Castlegar town-hall meeting is slated for tomorrow night at the Complex at 7 p.m. to discuss Interior Health’s (IH’s) plan to take Castlegar’s ultrasound machine and move it to Trail. This, after a closed-door meeting earlier in the day with IH regional representative Allan Sinclair and Castlegar Mayor Lawrence Chernoff, representatives from RDCK Areas […]

 New Democrat Agriculture Critic, Alex Atamanenko (BC Southern Interior) is fed up with the partisan antics that Conservative Members of Parliament are using to obstruct the work of the Standing Committee on Agriculture. According to Atamanenko, all they had to do at last week’s meeting was vote on a motion to request a 30-day extension to complete […]

 A 21-year-old Swedish man killed himself and broadcast it over the internet via his webcam feed Monday, after posting to a message board that he had swallowed some painkillers and was going to hang himself. At 11:51 a.m. Central European Summer Time (0951 UTC), Marcus Jannes, a student from Järna, Stockholm, posted to the Mental Health Problems forum of Sweden’s Flashback message boards […]

Selkirk College’s Mir Centre for Peace Speaker Series Endowment has exceeded its target of $200,000, thanks to the generosity and support of community members, organizations and companies. Selkirk President Marilyn Luscombe made the public announcement at the Irving K. Barber Mir lecture featuring David Suzuki on September ...