It didn’t take former Leaf Larry Martel long to find a job in hockey. The ex-Leaf president moved across the hallway to office of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League after being elected as vice-president of the Neil Murdoch Division. The selection of Martel was just one of the news items coming out of the […]

The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations has called a special meeting Monday (June 15) to explain to the public about plans for the recovery of the Kootenay Lake fishery. The meeting, set from 7-9 p.m. at the Balfour Community Hall in Balfour, is co-hosted by the Province and the Balfour and District...

Interior Health’s board chair Erwin Malzer today announced that president and CEO Dr. Robert Halpenny has informed the board of directors of his decision to resign in the fall of 2015 in order to pursue other opportunities. “In his tenure as president and CEO, Dr. Halpenny has been a passionate leader, working tirelessly to...

Rapid response by the Nelson Fire Department prevented a truck fire from spreading near a home on Bealby Road Monday evening. NFD dispatch received a call at 6:29 p.m. Monday of a vehicle fire at 2080 Bealby Road. The owner of a 2010 Dodge Ram truck was backing an attached travel trailer up the steep driveway when the fire ...

A skateboarder is lucky not to have sustained serious injury after falling off the board near Park and Vernon Streets Saturday (June 5) night. Police received a call at approximately 10:30 p.m. that a male was found unconscious at the top of Vernon Street, around the 900 Block. It was determined the male, not wearing a helmet,...

In Canada we have been conditioned to believe that hard work will get us anywhere.  The belief that we could all be rich someday keeps us going through the hard times, keeps us pounding the pavement looking for work, and makes those long shifts at gas stations and fast food restaurants all over the country go by a little...

Selkirk College will move into the next fiscal year with a balanced budget after receiving approval from its Board of Governors earlier this month. After months of hard work by administration and staff, the 2015-2016 Selkirk College budget was passed at the June 2 board meeting. The college can now proceed with its $43.1...

Alex Grenier, who escaped the Trail Daily Pavilion Saturday night, was apprehended by Nelson Police Sunday evening at Stepping Stones in Nelson. Nelson Police was advised of Grenier’s location at approximately 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Trail RCMP had put out an alert on Grenier, suspected of being delusional and having "homicidal...

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes has been researching and writing about the history and politics of water in the upper Columbia Basin since 2005.  Her book on the Columbia River Treaty, A River Captured, is forthcoming in 2016.  Recently, her travelling exhibit on the Columbia River Treaty, curated for Touchstones Nelson, won a...

The Nakusp RCMP are warning of a phone and email scam where a fraudster states they are a Canada Revenue Agency representative and pressures the potential victim into paying a non-existent debt.   RCMP have received a number of complaints.  People are being called by someone claiming to be from the tax agency who uses threatening...