Baseball. The sport of the dog days of summer. Fans looking to watch some of the best youth baseball in the province should take flight to Andy Bilesky Park in Trail for the B.C. Little League Championships. The six-team tournament begins Saturday with the host Trail Allstars up against District 3 rep White Rock at […]

TSN (The Sports Network) announced Tuesday that Creston has been named the first winning community in this year’s Kraft Celebration Tour. The news came after hundreds of thousands of online votes from passionate Canadians across the country. As part of the Kraft Celebration Tour, Creston will host a special edition of SPORTSCENTRE featuring anchors Darren […]

Forget about the nice summer weather. The movers and shakers from the Selkirk College Men’s Hockey Team are doing their best to dream of success on ice after inking a major cog in next season’s team — former Western Hockey League netminder Alexandre Sirard of Calgary. Sirard joins the Saints for the 2012/13 B.C. Intercollegiate […]

Summer is here, finally. Kerry Reed of Reel Adventures Charters is back on the water fishing for the big one. Here’s Reed with the Fishing Report for July. Kootenay Lake Well Summer may finally be here. With the latest forecast finally calling for some sunshine, we may actually get a break from the rising water […]

Defending champion Rossland Gnarlies Angels made a statement Friday night in Nelson that the road to West Kootenay Women’s Roller Derby League title still goes through the Golden City. The Angels outscored Salmo’s Babes of Brutality 102-60 in the second half to dump their league rivals 167-120 at the Crashablanca Friday at the Nelson and […]

It’s didn’t take former Kootenay International Junior Hockey League coach Tom Renney to find a job back in the pros. The Columbia Valley Rockies skipper, who took the one proud franchise to a KIJHL title, accepted an offer earlier this week with the Detroit Red Wings as associate coach. Renney fell out of favour with […]

Steve Archdekin likes to make a grand entrance when he competes at triathlon races — not. But the British Columbian transplant is definitely making a splash on the world triathlon scene after having a story published about him in the British magazine Triathlon Plus. “It was a good article, so I’m glad about that,” Archdekin […]

Nelson will be showcased once again on television, this time as part of the Dimestore Fishermen series appearing on the World Fishing Network (WFN) Friday. The episode shot on Kootenay Lake in the fall of 2011 is on Channel 152 on Shaw TV. Airtimes are Friday at 2 p.m. and 10 p.m. and Saturday 6 […]

Six local Christina Lake Golf Club members are set to golf alongside 66 other competitors from across the province during the 2012 British Columbia Women’s Amateur/Mid-Amateur Championships, July 3-6. Round one tee time starts at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow (Tuesday, July 3) and at regular intervals all morning long as the top women...

Time is running out on youngsters wanting to enter the third annual the Kids-Tri event Saturday, July 7 in Trail. The race is open to Participants from ages four to 12 with different routes and distances for each age group (4 years; 5-6 years; 7-8 years; 9-10 years; 11-12 years). Cost is $36.00, and every […]