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 […]

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 […]

One day before Nelsonites head to the polls in the 2011 Municipal Election there is good and some bad news on how previous councils have managed taxpayer’s money in the last decade. A recent report released from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business ranked the City in the top 15 out of 153 communities in […]

Earlier this week Nelson Police placed a 27-year-old transient male under arrest on charges of sexual assault, sexual interference and uttering threats. The arrest happened Monday. The victim in this matter is a 13-year-old female who had been reported missing by the RCMP from a neighbouring community. The accused male, who is well known to […]

In 1985, Microsoft Corporation released the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0; compact Discs are introduced to American Consumers and the Mount Sentinel Wildcats won the West Kootenay High School AA Boy’s Volleyball zone. Twenty-six years later, technology has changed but the same school is being represented at the Provincial AA Volleyball championships. The Wildcats […]

Christina Lake resident Allen Piche is facing another court date for feeding wildlife as the Crown landed new charges in his lap this week.  Piche, who made international headlines last year when up to 24 bears were discovered on his property during a marijuana grow operation bust, confessed to feeding wildlife when charged last fall. […]

The Canadian Ski Council has already processed over 7,000 applications for its Grade 4 & 5 SnowPass program. These lucky children from across Canada have the opportunity to ski or ride for free up to three times at each participating ski area in their region this winter. Since the Grade 4 & 5 SnowPass program […]

Winter has officially hit in Nelson, again. Another dump of snow — up to 15 centimetres — is expected overnight in Nelson and across the West Kootenay region Thursday night and into Friday morning as winter begins its assault on the climes of the Kootenays. On Wednesday night snowfall accumulation of around 15 centimetres descended […]

The Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) marks the start of a new season of avalanche forecasts with a new bulletin format and a significant increase in the number of bulletin regions. “These two developments go hand-in-hand,” explains CAC Executive Director Ian Tomm. “With help from the efficiencies of our new bulletin system, we will split some […]

Evidence from several serious RCMP files is in public hands after sloppy police work left sensitive images in the open.  RCMP at the Grand Forks detachment put the home of Dion Nordick, who prefers to be known as Buck Addams, under surveillance as a part of executing a search warrant on June 13 for an […]