If anyone living in the Kootenays thinks the day is going bad, check out what's happening in Cowtown. Wednesday morning, Calgarians opened the blinds to see close to 10 centimetres of snow fall overnight, which just happened to knock out the power so no coffee. It's the second storm this week. An upper disturbance developed...

While B.C. Education minister Peter Fassbender came out Monday telling reporters in Victoria he's living in the time-loop comedy Groundhog Day, members on the picket line in Nelson are dealing with the reality of not getting a pay cheque as the teachers' strike enters its second week of the new school year without classes. ...

Letter to the Editor: The continuing battle between the BCTF and the Provincial Ministry of Education should be of grave concern to families across B.C., and should be incredibly frightening to parents and caregivers in the Boundary and West Kootenay Region. Most conversations are about laying blame: “It’s the teacher’s fault”;...

There is still no good news for more than half a million B.C. students as beginning Monday the strike by BC teachers enters its second week. Saturday, the BC Government issued a release rejecting the idea proposed Friday by BC Teachers Federation president Jim Iker for the two sides to solve this dispute by entering […]

Search and Rescue teams, with help from the 442 squadron Cormorant helicopter, scanned the shoreline of Kootenay Lake from Nine Mile, north of Nelson, on to the Corra Linn Dam near Bonnington Sunday with no luck locating the missing Surrey man.   It was the third day SAR members searched for the 56-year-old Surrey resident ...

It’s a heck of a bathtub to clean. BC Hydro will be draining the Kootenay Canal, west of Nelson, from early September to the end of October to upgrade the canal’s lining. It’s a  $10 million project that will utilize 70 workers — including engineers, safety experts, construction workers and environment workers — to complete,...

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died following a hiking incident near Silverton on Aug. 29. He was Nicholas Ioan Llewelyn-Smith, aged 31, from the Orara Valley, New South Wales, Australia.  Llewelyn-Smith was camping with several friends at the Bannock Point campground south of Silverton on the...

Beginning Friday, Kokanee Park will be flooded by Search and Rescue Teams as the Heritage City organization hosts large inter-regional SAR exercise, beginning Friday and ending Sunday (September 5-7). More than 100 SAR members from throughout the region will take part in take part in workshops and training. Highlighting the weekend is the 442 squadron […]

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died after a motor vehicle incident near Kootenay Pass summit east of Salmo (Friday) August 29 as William Richard Wells, aged 57, of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Wells was the operator of a westbound motorcycle which went out of control and entered a ditch […]

This week should be the first week of school. For students and their teachers, it's supposed to be a time of excitement and anticipation. But instead, it's a time of frustration and uncertainty. I am not happy about where things currently stand. Throughout this dispute, everything we've tried to do is to have schools open on...