Hector Sandoval of Creston is $10-grand richer after walking away with the top prize at the Kootenay Lake BC Family Day Fishing Derby Monday. The event, hosted by Canadian Training Resources, by not only tossing out $30,000 in prizes but also donated 80 pounds of fresh fish to the local food bank in Creston. Sandoval […]

The Grand Forks Border Bruins played on home ice Saturday Feb., 8th against the Castlegar Rebels. No matter how hard the Bruins tried, the Rebels kept throwing out the plays and won the game with a score of 6:2. With methodically executed power plays the Rebels scored both the goals recorded in the first period. […]

Canada continued to build on its medal total with three more medals Monday at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Alex Bilodeau won his second straight gold medal in Olympic moguls with teammate Mikael Kingsbury capturing the silver. The Canadians narrowly missed sweeping the podium as Marc-Antoine Gagnon finished fourth. Earlier...

John Morris came within a few shots of competing for Canada at the Sochi Olympics. The Kelowna skip is now off to his seventh Brier – his first representing BC — after hammering Jason Montgomery of Victoria 11-2 in Sunday’s BC Championship final in Vancouver. Morris and his rink from the Kelowna and Vernon curling […]

Beaver Valley Nitehawks held serve against the Nelson Leafs in the race to finish on top of the Murdoch Division in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. Ryan Edwards snapped a 1-1 tie with a power play goal late in the third period to lift the Hawks to a 2-1 victory over the Leafs in […]

Nelson captain Darnel St. Pierre said before the weekend series against Beaver Valley there is a “really strong leadership group” in the Leafs dressing room. Those leaders stepped up big time, scoring three power play goals en route to a convincing 6-2 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League triumph over the Hawks Friday night at the […]

If the Kootenay Ice had a point for every game the club let slip away, well, the Ice would be probably battling for a playoff spot instead of fighting to stay out of the BC Major Midget Hockey League cellar. Cariboo Cougars scored three power play goals en route to a 4-2 victory Sunday over […]

Nelson Leafs head coach Frank Maida probably felt he had been struck by lightning when he heard top goal scorer Jamie Vlanich was leaving the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League club for the Selkirk College Men’s Hockey program. Maida can breathe a sigh of relief knowing Vlanich is going to the Saints, but not until […]

The Grand Forks Border Bruins’ Jan. 22 game at home ice against the Osoyoos Coyotes was a well played perfectly match game. It was so well played, that the results were a coin toss.  But as things go, eventually someone grasps the upper edge and this time it was the Coyotes. They won the toss with a […]

The Castlegar Bantam House Vikings (ages 13 and 14) are proving there is more than one way to show winning spirit – first, by sharing their love of the sport with our neighbours south of the border and second, by beating out the rival Trail Warriors to take home the championship from the 2014 South […]