It will be Beacon Hills playing White Rock and Dunbar battling Hastings as the B.C. Little League Baseball Championships enter the playoff stage Friday at Andy Bilesky Park in Trail. The final playoff spot was detemined Wednesday when Beacon Hills of Victoria pounded Trail pitching for 10 first inning runs en route to a 13-11 […]

Finally, some good news for a region beseiged by calamitous weather events – the province’s Disaster Financial Assistance Program has designated overland flooding from June 3 to 12 and June 22 to July 2 as “qualifying events”, meaning home owners and small business owners may qualify for between $1,000 and $300,000 in relief funding to […]

On July 25, Zellstoff Celgar Limited Partnership was sentenced in B.C. Provincial court for depositing acutely lethal effluent into the Columbia River, and for other offences under the Environmental Management Act. The sentencing is the result of a conviction on February 16, 2012, following an eight-day trial. Zellstoff Celgar Limited Partnership was fined a total of […]

The body of a third victim has been recovered from the site of the Johnsons Landing mudslide, the BC Coroners Service has confirmed. The body of Rachel Webber, 17, was recovered by searchers at about 6 p.m. on July 25, the first day of the resumption of recovery efforts. Webber was located near the front […]

The Regional District of Central Kootenay is lifting the state of emergency for the area surrounding the HB Mine Dam site near Salmo. “Right now the situtation has stabilized . . . we’ve been able to shore up the one side of the dam,” said Francis Mika of the RDCK Emergency Operations Centre. Maika said […]

The hosts finally got into the win column. After three straight losses, the Trail Allstars used a nine-run fourth inning to outlast Forest Hills 15-11 at the 2012 B.C. Little League Championships Tuesday at Andy Bilesky Park in the Silver City. The Allstars pounded Forest Hills pitching for eight hits including a home run by […]

The BC Coroners Service announced today that it will resume the search for only one of two bodies believed to be trapped under five to 10 metres of debris from a mudslide on July 12 in Johnsons Landing. “Chief coroner Lisa Lapointe says that searchers, with the help of heavy excavation machinery, will spend two […]

Even during the dog days of summer, the Selkirk Saints continue to build for the winter. Saints head coach Jeff Dubois added another cog to the wheel with the signing of former Beaver Valley Nitehawk assistant captain Mason Spear for the upcoming B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League season. “Mason’s work ethic, grit and skill level make […]

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a boy who died when his cabin at a summer camp near Grand Forks was crushed by falling trees on July 20. The boy is Richard Fehr, aged 11, from Christina Lake. Richard was attending a summer session at Pines Bible Camp, located 8.5 km north […]

The B.C. Coroners Service confirmed the identities of the man and woman dug out of a massive landslide that struck Johnsons Landing in southeast B.C. a week ago. The man was 60-year-old Valentine Webber, while the woman was his 22-year-old daughter, Diana. The two bodies were recovered last week, a few days after the 83 […]