By The Nelson Daily SportsThe biggest prize of the High School Girl’s Roundball season is up for grabs Friday in the Silver City as four schools compete for a berth at the B.C. High School AA Soccer Championship.Defending zone champion, L.V. Rogers Bombers, enters the final four as the second seed in the Kootenay Zone...

Six young people have been identified and arrested in the residential break and enter in Uphill Nelson from Tuesday, April 26. Nelson Police said the youths were aged 12, 13, 15, 15, 15 and 16. Approximately $45,000 worth of jewelry, electronic devices and currency was stolen in the break-in. The youths have been released to […]

Gasoline prices in parts of the West Kootenay continued their upward march Wednesday, rising 2.5 cents per litre, similar to what was happening across the province and the country. The increase followed a 6.5-cents-per-litre jump the day before in some areas. The increases means the average price for a litre of regular is just under […]

The Rossland Swimming Pool Society is making waves this week in an effort to keep the only society-run swimming pool in the province from going down the drain. While the pool itself is not in immediate danger of closing, the society that runs it may be. With almost 80 years of operation under its belt, […]

The countdown to the BC Seniors Games has officially begun after a torchlighting ceremony in Castlegar last night. More than 100 people turned out to watch the torch being lit at 8 p.m. at the Castlegar Complex, after words from games organizers, Castlegar mayor Lawrence Chernoff, Nelson city councillor Deb Kozak, Trail mayor Dieter Bogs, […]

An accidental leak of Facebook users’ personal information over the past few years could have gone to advertisers, Symantec Corp. said in its official blog. The security software maker (blog) said the third parties, likely advertisers, might have gotten into personal information — photographs, chat, profiles — and might have had the ability to post […]

By Nicole Brewer Shambhala Music Festival may be hidden and nestled in the mountains, held on a farm near Salmo, but it still ranks in the upper half of a top 100 most visible music festivals on Google, according to a study recently conducted by Marianne Lorthiois, an MBA student in Quebec City. Massive festivals […]

By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily SportsDuring the summer it’s not an unlikely sight to see Geoff Kinrade sweating through his workout routine at a fitness center near you.Kinrade’s like a machine as he works every muscle in his body into chisel-like form.That’s been music to the ear of Binghamton Senators’ coach Kurt Kleinendorst.Since...

By The Nelson Daily Sports Rossland/Trail’s Brenan Moroney destroyed the field en route to winning the Granite Pointe stop on the Zone One West Kootenay Junior Golf tournament Sunday in Nelson. Moroney shot an amazing 6-under-par 66 to claim the tourney by 10 shots over Kevin Bennett of Redstone in Rossland and Champion Lakes golfer […]

Two more Nelsonites have come forward to report that they were the victims of Internet fraud, the Nelson Police said Monday. In the first incident, a woman reported she had placed an ad to sell her personal bike. The seller thought she had sold her bike after receiving a money order from the buyer, but […]