The City of Castlegar is putting out an early tender for the roughly $2.3-million Phase Two of the airport-lands-servicing project, after an unanimous vote at council’s regular meeting Monday evening. “This is where we connect the pipe (recently installed spanning Kinnaird bridge during Phase One) at either end – on one end to the city’s […]

I absolutely applaud a resolution Mayor Lawrence Chernoff announced Monday that he’d be bringing forward to council next meeting to consider bringing to the Association of Kootenay Boundary Local Governments and from there, if it passes, to the Union of BC Municipalities and then to the provincial government. In effect, the resolution will ask that […]

By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily Staff and management at Whitewater Resort must have put in a call to Mother Nature prior to applying the finishing touches to the 2012 Winter Carnival weekend. Why else would the lovely lady dump 125 plus centimeters on the hill in January to make the scenery wintry and conditions excellent. […]

The West Kootenay will be solidly represented at the upcoming B.C. Winter Games in Vernon in the sport of girl’s hockey. No less than seven players caught the eye of evaluators and were selected to Team Kootenay to play in the U16 girl’s hockey tournament following the weekend camp in Invermere. Nelson headlines the contingent […]

By Bill Metcalfe, Nelson Daily “To my knowledge Nelson is the only community of this size to attempt commissioning an opera anywhere in North America,” says Marty Horswill. “How many towns of ten thousand people even have an opera company?”  Premiere performance March 8 Horswill is the Production Coordinator for KHAOS, an original opera commissioned […]

A backpack containing 18 pounds of drug ecstasy valued at $135,000 was found abandoned along the border just west of Danville on Monday. The United States Border Patrol seized the “designer” drug and $14,000 in American currency near the port of entry on the American side. The ecstasy was packaged in powder form. Agents discovered […]

Looking at the standings, and some of the game scores, the Kootenay Ice should have been an easy meal for the Greater Vancouver Canadians. But the Kootenay Ice players do not look at the standings, and are possessed with very short memories. Jake Lucchini of Trail had a five-point weekend sparking the Ice to a […]

Slippery roads are the blame for at least two accidents Tuesday afternoon on Highway 3A west of Nelson. At approximately 4:20 p.m., a late model Honda collided with a Ford F150 near the Bonnington/South Slocan border. Both single-occupant vehicles ended up in the ditch with the women driving the Honda taken by ambulance for precautionary […]

For the third year in a row Selkirk College and the Kootenays will benefit from the Province of British Columbia’s Employment Skills Access Initiative (ESA), with nearly $675,000 in funding. This year the funding will be put toward the delivery of Administrative Skills Training (AST) and Early Childhood Care Education Assistant (ECCE) programs. This year […]

Police are asking for witnesses to come forward if they saw Friday night’s car accident on Hwy 3A near Thrums, according to RCMP Cpl. John Ferguson. “(On Jan. 13) at (about) 5:18 p.m., the Castlegar RCMP and West Kootenay Traffic Services responded to a two-car, head-on collision on Highway 3A, Thrums area,” he said. “A […]