Play it safe when boating or swimming this summer. Our reservoirs can be enjoyable recreation destinations, provided certain common sense safety precautions are observed. Because the water in our reservoirs is utilized for flood control and the production of electricity, reservoir water levels can rise or fall daily. Reservoir...

The rapid expansion of harm reduction services in response to B.C.’s overdose crisis prevented more than 3,000 possible overdose deaths during a 20-month period, suggests new research led by the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). The study estimates that without access to and rapid scale up of harm reduction and treatment...

The Trail Smoke Eaters Junior ‘A’ Hockey Club is pleased to announce the team has acquired forward Corey Clifton (’99) from the Surrey Eagles in exchange for defenseman Jimmy Darby (’01). Clifton, 20, spent the 2018/19 season with the Eagles, collecting 7 goals and 18 assists for 25 points in a career-high 50 games played, ...

Local Sea Cadets from 81 Hampton Gray VC. RCSCC (Nelson) and 131 Kootenay RCSCC Trail, and Air Cadets from 531 RCACS (Trail), 561 Osprey RCACS (Nelson) and 581 RCACS (Castlegar) participated in their Annual Ceremonial Review on Saturday June 1, at the Castlegar Community Complex. The Annual Ceremonial Review (ACR) is the final...

The RBC Foundation has donated $50,000 to the Take a Hike Foundation through RBC Future Launch. Dale Verdon, Manager at the Nelson RBC Branch met with the West Kootenay Take a Hike class to present the $50,000 cheque that will help one hundred vulnerable youth graduate high school and support Take a Hike’s expansion to Vancouver...

A Trail man is facing charges after an altercation at a local pub, according to RCMP Sgt. Mike Wicentowich. Wicentowich said that, on June 1 at roughly 6 p.m., thepolice responded to a call of an assault with a weapon at the Tunnel Pub on Schofield Highway.  "A 54-year-old male was hit in the face with a beer glass by another...

A suspected arsonist has been arrested in connection with a fire Tuesday, according to Trail top cop RCMP Sgt. Mike Wicentowich. “On May 28, at 5:44 p.m. the Trail and Greater District Detachment RCMP responded to the report of an intentionally set fire outside of the Gescan building in the 1300 block of Columbia Avenue in ...

Dear Editor, There will be a Federal election this October and I’m wondering what the various parties will tell us should be of concern: SNC Lavalin, taxing sugary drinks, immigration or a price on carbon?  When I consider that everything we do happens within “the environment”, locally and globally and that environment is being impacted […]

Job seekers, employers and the public are invited to the grand opening of the new WorkBC Centre in downtown Trail on Thursday, June 6. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., visitors can check out the brand-new space at 1499 Bay Avenue, meet staff and discover all the services and programs offered by WorkBC. The new centre will serve job ...

Representatives from the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary Greater Trail Victim Services Program, the RCMP Trail Detachment and the Greater Trail Community Justice Program gathered with Metis and First Nations representatives, the Trail Kiwanis Club and dozens of other community members to unveil a bench to memorialize...