A three-day strike to begin next Monday may cost BC teachers the support of some local parents, as residents scramble to find childcare with less than 48-hours notice (not counting the weekend). Jeanette Cook is a Castlegar mom with three kids, ages four, 12 and 13, who was supposed to start post-secondary school on Monday. […]

The following is a press release issued just after 1 p.m. today by the BC Teachers’ Federation: Next Monday, March 5, teachers across B.C. will begin a legal three-da,y full-scale withdrawal of services, as permitted under the Labour Relations Board interim essential services order. At 6 a.m. today, the BCTF issued notice of the escalation […]

Chris Dadson, president of Kootenay-Rockies Tourism (KRT), presented council with interesting tourism statistics on Monday evening, and showed off a brand new "Connected Travel" initiative for smartphones that they hope will help fulfill KRT's mandate to enhance the region's visitor economy. While the Canadian Tourism Commission...

Not only is Justin Hines a world-class Canadian singer and song writer, he has a unique connection to Grand Forks — his wife Savanna is from here. This special connection is giving our small town a very unusual opportunity to see such a famous and inspiring performer up close and personal. Fans of folk-pop, inspirational […]

By Bruce Fuhr, The Nelson Daily Man that’s playoff hockey — not! In a game that most definitely had coaches Frank Maida and Steve Junker searching the trainer’s room for bottles of Alka-Seltzer to help cure strong cases of acid indigestion, the Castlegar Rebels somehow managed to pull out a 7-6 Kootenay International Junior Hockey […]

Last week’s provincial  budget includes two items that will directly impact municipalities: the increase in Medical Services Plan (MSP) premiums, and the creation of a new Auditor General for Local Government. MSP will increase local government expenses Increases to MSP premiums will amount to about $60 per year per person. This cost will be passed […]

RCMP report and internet / telephone scam is making its way around the Village of Nakusp. Police report a Nakusp citizen recently applied for and was offered a job to be a Mystery Shopper for Winners Merchants International L.P.  The citizen was sent a cheque and they were asked to cash it at a local […]

RCMP in Castlegar is conducting a full investigation into a damaged Fortis BC fiber optics cable on right-a-way near a substation next to the Tarry’s Fire Hall across from Kalesnikoff Lumber at 2103 Highway 3A. Sometime in the past few days a coiled fiber optics cable attached to the side off of a power pole […]

By Bruce Fuhr, The Nelson Daily It was a Murphy’s Law second period for the Nelson Leafs. Whatever the Green and White touched, or didn’t touch, turned to . . . well, I think Leaf hockey fans understand. The Castlegar Rebels exploded for five second period goal en route to a 5-3 Murdoch Division semi […]

Students and staff at L.V Rogers High School plan to join tens of thousands across Canada as part of “Pink Shirt Day” Wednesday. Pink Shirt Day is a nationwide movement that originated at Central Kings Rural High School in Cambridge, Nova Scotia more than a decade ago. There, two students witnessed a bully harassing and […]