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 […]

RCMP in Nelson have confirmed that a second skier died as result of injuries sustained after being buried while heli-skiing in the Bonnington Range avalanche early Wednesday morning. Earlier Wednesday, RCMP reported that one man had succumbed to injuries in the Class 3.5 our of a scale of 1 to 5 avalanche. BC RCMP Communications […]

The Nelson Rural area RCMP confirm a fatal avalanche incident occurred south of Nelson Wednesday morning, involving a group of heli-skiers. At around 10 a.m. on March 21, the Nelson Rural area RCMP were notified of the avalanche that  involved a group of commercially guided heli-skiers, skiing in the Bonnington Mountain range near Blewett, B.C. […]

A request for bail was adjourned pending a psychiatric assessment for accused arsonist, Christopher James Cusack. Cusack, a 47 year-old Grand Forks resident, appeared in the Grand Forks courthouse yesterday, Tuesday, March 20. He faces two counts of arson endangering life in connection with the fires at the Grand Forks Hotel and the Winnipeg Hotel […]

Nelsonites Jenna Wheeldon and Emma Hare each score twice to lift the West Kootenay Wildcats into the win column at the B.C. Hockey Female Bantam Championships on Vancouver Island with a 5-4 victory over South Island Royals. The win improves the record of the Cats to 1-2. However, the record is not good enough for […]

The Beaver Valley Nitehawks had the power play motoring on all cylinders in Game three of the Kootenay Conference Finals. The Hawks scored three power play markers to double the Ghostriders 4-2 in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League playoff action Tuesday in Fernie. Beaver Valley takes a 2-1 lead, and regains home ice advantage, in […]

The wheels are now in motion for the Kootenay Co-op to move to the other end of Baker Street in Nelson after a special resolution to purchase the Extra Foods building was overwhelmingly approved. During a special general meeting Monday at the Best Western Baker Street Inn, that attracted more than 100 members, the resolution […]