The provincial government fired the latest salvo over the Purcell Mountains in the Keep Jumbo Wild fight when politicians last week gave the go ahead to Glacier Resorts Ltd to build North America’s only year-round glacier based resort. Sunday evening in front of Nelson City Hall, 200 supporters of Keep Jumbo Wild came together to […]

Dear editor, Road maintenance in our area has deteriorated drastically over the last few years. During the first 10 years of privatization of highways maintenance the system worked fine. The Ministry required the contractors to maintain the same number of employees, equipment and yards that the M.O.H. previously had. The Ministry had full time inspectors […]

The B.C. government fired up the Keep Jumbo Wild supporters with its announcement last week approving the Jumbo Glacier Resort Master Development and setting in motion what promises to be one heck of a battle between environment movement and business. The approval gives Glacier Resorts Ltd the go ahead to build North America’s only year-round […]

The dates have been released and Wednesday, March 28 has been designated as the opening night in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League Final. Surprising Kelowna Chiefs hope to keep their post-season upset streak alive as the Okanagan Conference champs travel to Fruitvale to meet the KIJHL best regular season team, Beaver Valley Nitehawks. The Hawks […]

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 […]