UPDATED: Mayor to stay; newcomers Rye and Heaton win; Duff loses seat
CORRECTION: The two new city councillors will not, as it says in the following story, be taking their chairs in Monday’s city council meeting but, rather, will be sworn in on Monday, Dec. 5. The Source apologizes for this inaccuracy. Another election cycle is over, and two new city councillors will be taking their chairs at […]
Cats qualify for provincials after stunning tournament run at Kootenay Zone A Girl's Championships
By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily Sports The Mount Sentinel Wildcats have qualified for the B.C. High School A Girl’s Volleyball Championships. If someone on the street said this in passing a few years ago the response would have been, “so what . . . that’s nothing new. Mount Sentinel goes all the time.” However, after […]
Seasonal Affective Disorder: How to minimize it early on
After waking up last Saturday morning to a brilliant blue sky after all that new snow on Friday, I couldn’t help but jump out of bed and go for a cross-country ski up at Paulson. I still hadn’t had enough of that sunshine, so, I went for a back-country ski on Sunday afternoon up at […]
Programs support eating local year-round
Interior Health residents are getting the message: locally grown food is better for your health, the environment and the local economy. Attendance is up at farmers’ markets, gardens are becoming more popular and people are paying attention to where their food is grown. Now that winter is on the way, can we still eat locally? […]
Mayor Dooley delivered surprise in his bid for third term
The biggest surprise for Mayor John Dooley came one day before Saturday night’s election results had been delivered — a landslide victory of nearly 1,300 votes over his nearest competitor. His sister, Katrina, flew in from Ireland Friday night to see her older brother at the end of his campaign for a third consecutive term […]
Let it snow!
Winter is here and rather than hiding inside for the next few months, why not get outside and enjoy winter this year by hitting the slopes with your Grade 4 and 5 children! Skiing and snowboarding are some of Canada’s most popular winter sports and one of the best ways to stay active this winter. […]
Surge of incumbents defines rural races in RDCK, with similar results in other municipalities
Nelson is not an island in the West Kootenay political sea. With municipal and regional district elections raging all across the province on Saturday night, other results from the nearby races filtered in. Close to the Heritage City home, the Regional District of Central Kootenay’s neighbouring areas saw incumbent Area E (Balfour, Harrop, Proctor) director […]
Local school-bus driver binds and gags kids with duct tape
On Oct. 26, the Castlegar RCMP received a complaint regarding an incident involving a local school bus driver on one of the after school bus routes. The incident revolved around what was supposed to be a fun game between the driver and kids riding the bus. The driver is alleged to have canvassed children on […]
OP/ED: MP slams Tory closure of controversial crime bill
The Conservatives are hiding from opposition scrutiny by invoking closure to limit the Justice Committee’s debate on the government’s controversial omnibus crime bill, C-10, cccording to Alex Atamanenko, MP for BC Southern Interior. “This is just the latest of seven examples this session where Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have moved to bypass parliamentary work and prevent […]
Earthquake wakes the region
The Kootenay / Boundary region woke to the impact of a magnitude 4.6 earthquake in the early hours this Friday morning. The earthquake’s epicenter was just outside of Omak, Washington at 5:09 a.m., the second in a week according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. The earthquake that took place last week in the same […]
