Icing a winner has caught the eye of another recruit as the Selkirk Saints announced defenceman Ryan Procyshyn will join the B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League team next season. Procyshyn, from Surrey, is completing his final season of junior eligibility with the Delta Ice Hawks of the Pacific Junior Hockey League. The 20-year old finished third […]

Three people escaped serious injury following a two-vehicle accident Monday afternoon near the Granite Road turnoff eight kilometers west of Nelson on Highway 3A. The accident, a few 100 meters on the Nelson side of the Taghum bridge, happened shortly after noon when a newer import compact traveling from Castlegar to Nelson collided with an […]

The Selkirk College Saints clinched its first B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League regular season title by splitting a pair of weekend games with Eastern Washington University. The title completes a worst-to-first season for the Saints, who finished dead last in 2012. The Saints opened the weekend by edging out the Eagles 3-2...

It’s a huge undertaking, but watching the provincial government fast forward the incorporation of the Jumbo Ski Hill expansion as a mountain resort municipality is something the West Kootenay EcoSociety felt it could not in good conscience stand by and let happen. Monday, at the Nelson Courthouse, West Kootenay EcoSociety Executive Director David Reid and […]

A Grand Forks resident took the law into his own hands when he made a citizen’s arrest to a man he caught stealing two toolboxes from a home on 5th Street in Grand Forks. Grand Forks RCMP arrived on scene Monday, Feb. 11 at 4:02 p.m. after receiving the call for a theft in progress, […]

The West Kootenay EcoSociety said it plans to submit an application in BC Provincial Court Monday afternoon in Nelson for a Judicial Review of the Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort Municipality near Invermere. West Kootenay EcoSociety said it will argue the appointment of municipal councilors without any electors violates the constitution and various provincial statutes. “Fundamentally […]

UPDATE: Bridge fire considered arson, police investigating Grand Forks RCMP are looking for the person or persons responsible for lighting the Hummingbird Bridge on fire after they found two jerry cans of gasoline set against the frame of the bridge on Saturday, Feb. 16. The bridge fire is one of four recent arson cases the […]

So close, but yet so far away for the Cranbrook’s Tom Shypitka rink. Craig Lepine of Langley scored three in the ninth to break open a close game and defeat Shypitka 5-2 in the final of the im Horton’s BC Senior Men’s Curling Championship Saturday at the Trail Curling Club. The win avenged a loss […]

There’s a reason why the Castlegar Rebels are Kootenay International Junior Hockey League regular season champs. The Rebels have not one but two great goalies, the defence is solid anchored by captain Erik Alden and the forwards skate miles and hit anything that moves in the opposing jersey. All three facets were on display as […]

Cranbrook’s Team Shypitka, which includes Nelson curling guru Fred Thomson, will play for the Tim Horton’s BC Senior Men’s crown Saturday at 2 p.m. Shypitka, third Thomson, second Don Freschi of Trail and Bill King of Fruitvale, doubled Kootenay rival Myron Nichol 8-4 in nine ends Friday  during the semi final at the Trail Curling […]