It was a busy weekend for Castlegar cops – including some serious gardening issues. Castlegar RCMP Cpl Debbie Postnikoff said police responded to 70 calls for service over the second long weekend of summer. “The calls were routine in nature and consisted mainly of traffic related incidents, liquor related offences and bylaw infractions,” she said. […]

A portion of Highway 6 near Nelson will be resurfaced this summer, improving safety for motorists on this important route through the West Kootenay. Approximately 14 kilometres of Highway 6 will be resurfaced between Euphrates Mine and Nelson. This will benefit local residents, as well as visitors driving the scenic International Selkirk Loop and travelling […]

By Glyn Humphries July 2002: I became one of the outraged. Outraged, not just about cuts to health care, but also about Canada’s bedrock of democracy: accountability and democratic process. It was a dark era for democracy. In one fell swoop, bureaucrats damaged Nelson’s hospital- like officials removing children from a family, without warning or […]

A Nelson mother is over the moon with joy after RCMP in the North Okanagan called to say daughter, Morgan Durocher, has been found. “The RCMP called me a half-an-hour ago,” a relieved Erin Droucher told The Nelson Daily Thursday morning. “They said they found her in Enderby.” It’s been 10 days since Nelson’s Morgan […]

Grand Forks Search and Rescue and Christina Lake Fire Department successfully recovered a body from the Cascade Cove area of the Kettle River, near Grand Forks. The body, found Monday, Aug. 6, has been positively identified as the missing 50-year-old male visitor, Andrew Barrie. He is the last of the three people to be recovered following […]

A Castlegar man escaped serious injury after falling asleep at the wheel and crashing down an estimated 120-foot embankment outside of Nelson Sunday afternoon. “”The driver is very fortunate to be alive,” RCMP staff Sergeant Dan Seibel  said in an emailed press release. “This is an excellent example that seat belts save lives. If the […]

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died Saturday, August  4, while swimming near Taghum Beach on Kootenay Lake as Donald Morris of Nelson. Morris, 64, was swimming with friends in the Taghum area on the afternoon and dove from a rock face, briefly resurfaced and then went out of […]

Stephen Hastings of Calgary and Malindi Elmore of Kelowna breezed over the  picturesque Heritage City triathlon course to capture the top prizes in the respective men’s and women’s division at the 30th annual Cyswog’n’Fun Sunday at Lakeside Park. Hastings finished under two hours, crossing the finish line at Lakeside Park in a time of one […]

The CBC is reporting the Regional District of Central Kootenay paid $600,000 more for the HB Mine site near Salmo than the previous owners. Documents obtained by CBC show in the summer of 1997 a company from Panama called Seattle Corporation purchased the land for $149,000 and sold it to the RDCK a few months […]

A Red Deer woman started her party early, 8 a.m. MDT, before being arrested Thursday (August 2) in the parking lot of the A&W restaurant in Nelson. At 5:25 p.m., Nelson Police received a report of a suspected impaired driver in the lot of the A&W. Officers arrived to find 55-year-old female Alberta resident displaying […]