Ymir resident Sheilah Sweatman’s body was recovered from the Goat River around noon Thursday, a day after she was swept down the river while the swift water rescue team she was on attended the scene of a submerged vehicle. Search and Rescue Swift Water Specialists at the Goat River Thursday morning at the submerged vehicle […]

West Kootenay police detachments are kicking off a summer CounterAttack campaign this weekend with a reminder to plan ahead and choose a designated driver to get home safely. “Police will be out in full force looking for impaired drivers at roadchecks across the province this summer,” said Chief Constable Jamie Graham, Traffic committee chair of […]

Burn, baby, burn, at least for a few more days. Starting this Monday (noon) the Southeast Fire Centre will begin prohibiting all open fires within the jurisdiction of the fire centre — essentially the entire West Kootenay-Boundary region — as the summer season begins to heat up (we hope). The restriction comes into effect to […]

By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily SportsFor Sasha Zaitsoff, it’s the walk in the park he enjoys the most during his stay in Calgary.Of course that walk is not of friendly variety say down the sidewalk at Lakeside.This walk . . . well, let’s just say it’s more than a walk.This walk has this soon to be 21-year-old skier building ...

Lauren Taylor is slowly but surely moving up the leader board at the 2011 B.C. Women’s Amateur Golf Championship in Port Alberni.The Granite Pointe golfer shot an even-par 71 during Thursday’s third round to climb into a tie for eighth spot.The final round goes today. Taylor teed off shortly after 9 a.m.Taylor, coming off a...

I attended a public meeting Monday night, unveiling draft plans for Millennium Park.   I was very much impressed by the offerings – if I had any criticism to offer, it would be that I don’t believe linear thinkers will understand what they were seeing. When the city unveils a plan, we can generally expect […]

In case you missed it, this past Saturday, at around dinnertime the skies opened up briefly and we were treated to a spectacular double rainbow arching over town. It was certainly a sight to behold, and I noticed a cool detail about the pair: the fainter one was a mirror image of the brighter one. […]

Never mess with a man’s beer. After one man stole a full can of beer from another Monday night, a fight broke out in the lane behind the Hume Hotel. The man who stole the beer pulled out a folding knife and slashed the other man twice, once on the right hand and then on […]

Twenty-six new Gambro Artis hemodialysis machines have been installed in community dialysis units across the Kootenays, but none in Trail or in Nelson. The machines replace aging equipment with state-of-the-art technology that makes dialysis more flexible and more efficient. This $750,000 investment is funded by the Ministry of Health through the BC Renal Agency, an […]

Nelson novelist Mark Nykanen has two new books coming out under two different names with two different publishers – all within a three-week period this spring. The first is Burn Down the Sky, a post-apocalyptic thriller published by HarperCollins. Using his pen name, James Jaros, Nykanen tells a tale set in North America in the […]