Eyes sparkling with excitement, an animated Frances Welwood shares her enthusiasm for a remarkable woman, Annie Garland Foster, who challenged the conventions of her times, to become, among other things, the first woman councilor in Nelson. On Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Castlegar & District Public Library you will have the opportunity to […]

Unpicked fruit trees and unsecured garbage has attracted two mother black bears and their cubs onto Christina Lake’s residential streets. One bear and her small cub have been regularly spotted at the nature park located beside the Welcome Centre while a second bear with two small cubs has been eating the fallen fruit and getting […]

You may only know them from the hockey rink, but there's more to the Smoke Eaters than on-ice flair, as residents discovered at the Trail Terry Fox Run Sunday.Smokies players joined close to 200 local residents in running, walking and cycling the five-kilometre circuit at Gyro Park. Local organizers held a by-donation pancake...

September – the month that summer comes to a screeching halt, kids go back to school, zucchinis take over the world, and Christmas commercials begin to play on T.V. I have never been a real ‘September fan’ … to me, it has always represented a bleak, slippery slope leading to a dark pit of wintery […]

A 39-year-old Trail man has been sentenced to 15 months in jail after being caught with cocaine twice in as many months, according to RCMP Cpl Darryl Orr. According to Orr,  Leonard Ablog Dyoco was arrested July 18 for Possession of Cocaine for the Purpose or Trafficking.   “Members arrested (Dyoco) without incident after he had […]

It’s official, the National Hockey League locked out its players at midnight Saturday, September 15. Here’s the statement from the National Hockey League on its website: Despite the expiration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the National Hockey League has been, and remains, committed to negotiating around the clock to reach a new CBA that is […]

The two 2012 Murdoch Division Finalists once again assumed similar spots atop the standings following opening week in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. The Beaver Valley Nitehawks and Castlegar Rebels completed the weekend each with three points. However, both teams took different routes to the top of the standings. Castlegar rode the 28-save performance […]

Colton McCarthy’s second goal of the game in the final minute of regulation time lifted the Nelson Leafs to a 5-5 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League overtime tie against the Castlegar Rebels Friday night at the NDCC Arena. The goal by the 16-year-old rookie from Salmon Arm came with 11 ticks left on the clock […]

The Columbia Brewery in Creston is getting a major facelift to its brewing facility with the expected announcement Friday by Labatts to invest $1.4 Million. The expansion to brewing capacity is to accommodate Budweiser’s renowned brewing process in Creston for the first time. “Bringing Budweiser to Creston is a significant milestone for the Creston brewery. […]

City council is chasing the green – environmental and cash savings – with the move to paperless council meetings, according to councillor Kevin Chernoff. “We started thinking about it a year ago, through the Green Committee, and started implementing it in June – I was the first to make the switch,” he said, adding now […]