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 […]

By Bill Metcalfe, The Nelson Daily  Nelson is a hotbed of cooperatives—the Nelson and District Credit Union, the Kootenay Coop, the Kootenay Bakery, Kootenay Co-op Radio, Kootenay Carshare, and the list goes on. This is their year to shine, because 2012 is the International Year of Cooperatives, with celebrations and events locally and across the […]

By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily Sports The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League has commenced an investigation into a deadline deal gone bad between the Nelson Leafs and Osoyoos Coyotes involving 19-year-old forward Josh Gray. “Right now (Josh Gray) is still part of Kimberley but he can’t play at this time,” KIJHL president Bill Ohlhausen told […]

Nelson City Police have charged a 45-year-old Nelson man with Resisting Arrest and Possession of a Controlled Substance. In the early hours of Thursday, January 12th, a Nelson Police officer observed a driver commit several traffic violations. The officer attempted to stop the vehicle however it fled and attempted to evade police. After a short […]

 A former BC Ambulance Services (BCAS) paramedic says he thinks the situation that saw Castlegar without ambulance coverage over the holidays (see http://castlegarsource.com/news/bc-ambulance-services-speak-lack-castlegar-coverage-over-holidays-16050) is symptomatic of a much larger problem. Jason Angulo was with BCAS for just under four years, serving in Prince Rupert and Vernon, then resigning in May 2010.   Angulo said paramedics […]

Jayden Roch dropped in a game-high 13 points to spark the L.V. Rogers Bombers to a convincing 41-14 victory over the Stanley Humphries Rockers in West Kootenay Senior Girl’s Basketball League action Thursday at the Hangar. The Bombers, registering the first win of the New Year after four straight defeats, were in control from the […]