Leigh Ramsden lives in Vancouver and is an avid Canucks fan, having been a partial season ticket holder for over 10 years. He’s old enough to have witnessed all three Stanley Cup losses, as such, his prime goal is to remove those scars by seeing a Cup brought to Vancouver. Leigh is Fighting For Stanley’s […]

Quick thinking saved a Salmo resident a substantial amount of money. As a result Salmo RCMP are now involved, investigating an attempted fraud regarding a suspicious phone call Friday to a Salmo resident.  The caller pretended to be the grand daughter of the resident, claiming to have been involved in an impaired accident in Montreal, […]

Three games. Three losses. That’s the statistical information about the Kootenay Thunder at the Whitecaps Showcase Girl’s Soccer Tournament last weekend in Surrey. However, there is more to this event than just stats. The Thunder may have lost three games, but the Soccer Quest sponsored squad came away with a ton of knowledge and confidence […]

The Beaver Valley Nitehawks will play the Kelowna Chiefs for the big prize in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. The Hawks booked a ticket to the KIJHL Final by stopping the Fernie Ghostriders 6-2 Friday in Fruitvale to capture the Kootenay Conference Title in five games. The Chiefs needed a little heroics but also […]

It didn’t take the coaching staff of the Selkirk College Saints Men’s Hockey program to dust off the recruiting brochure. The Saints announced this week the team has landed a commitment from forward Cole Thomson of Duncan to join the squad in the fall for the 2012-13 B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League season. Thomson joins Selkirk […]

Rosslander Tammy McLean recently started the Facebook event, “Kootenay Citizens for Better Highway Maintenance” to encourage local residents to express their opinion about the state of highways maintenance. Comments have been rolling in. Taryn Marchi, who does “casual work” at KBRH wrote, “Due to the road conditions this year I have not taken a single […]

As the winter’s toll of motor vehicle accidents and inconveniences mounts, concerns in the community have grown that inadequate highway maintenance is putting the public at risk. At the core of the debate is whether restrictive provincial budgets and corner-cutting private contractors have (or haven’t) resulted in poorer standards of maintenance since the contracts were […]

Local country singer Amanda Thate needs your vote by Friday, March 30 to be the opening act in the Merrit Mountain Music Festival this summer. Thate, a Grand Forks graduate of 2011 who is now earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in social work at University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, has a noteworthy […]

Nitehawk goalie Mike Vlanich had a bounce-back game, stopping all 29 shots to backstop the Beaver Valley to a 2-0 Kootenay Conference victory over the host Ghostriders in Game four of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League Playoff series Wednesday in Fernie. Vlanich was in goal in Game two, the only win to date for […]

The B.C. Teachers Federation refuses to take the harsh realities of Bill 22 sitting down. And using one of its only bargaining tools, the 41,000-member federation will vote on the withdrawal of extracurricular activities in April. “This government has repeatedly demonstrated such profound disrespect for the work we do that members felt they had to […]