By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily The Waneta Dam expansion could create a legacy of skilled trades people for the West Kootenay region, says a Columbia Power spokesperson. Audrey Repin said with a guaranteed policy in place to hire apprentices on the jobsite, many of the over 400 new job hires could become journeymen trades […]

Ed. note: Every year on Christmas eve as young children, just before hanging our stockings on the mantel above the fireplace and heading off to bed our mother would read us The Night Before Christmas from a generations old hard-cover copy of the book. Now that my career has steadily moved further and further into […]

The day after the Rekindle the Spirit of Christmas event on Dec. 4, a person calling him/herself Dirty Hippo posted a long, strongly-worded message on Bhubble criticizing the Charlie Brownness of the Christmas tree in the town square. I wouldn’t refer to it as a tirade, just a firmly-stated, humourously-toned, panning of the organizers’ choice […]

PART I:  The past year has been an eventful one.   In January the Haiti earthquake hit. My staff and I worked for days with Foreign Affairs, a School District and Mt. Sentinel School of South Slocan to safely locate, press for transportation assistance, and rescue a class of high school students caught in Haiti.   […]

Castlegar residents are getting early gifts of Christmas cheer and important information tomorrow (Wednesday) morning, as infamous radio-show hosts ‘Drex & Johnson’ take one for the team by getting drunk on air, under the watchful eye of police. “I’m doing it for the people,” says Shaun Johnson, who will be indulging in beer …for the […]

Police are recommending charges of production of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking, against a 49-year-old Nelson man after responding to a call Saturday, Dec. 18. Nelson RCMP Sgt. Darryl Little said police attended a landlord-tenant dispute in the 2700 block of Hwy 3A. While in the […]

By The Nelson Daily Sports Time to break up the Kootenay Ice. For the second consecutive weekend the Ice scored a three-point weekend, this time against the Okanagan Rockets in B.C. Major Midget Hockey League action at the Capital New Centre in Kelowna. And it could have been better has Kootenay not blown a 4-1 […]

By The Nelson Daily Sports The Castlegar/Nelson Midget Reps exploded for 19 goals in two games to head into the Christmas break on a high note. Castlegar/Nelson bounced Trail Tier III 10-2 and 9-3 in a pair of West Kootenay Minor Hockey League games during the weekend. The two wins improve the Reps season record […]

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily A man took on six people and a car in a fight Friday night and then tried to outrun police officers when they arrived to break it up. Around 2:20 a.m. Saturday morning a ruckus broke out in the 400 block of Ward Street as one man assaulted six […]

The Nelson Daily has learned a Cranbrook sales consultant could be humming the tune to the Barenaked Ladies “If I had a Million Dollars” song very soon. Barry Epp of the Key City was selected at random as the winner of TSN’s fifth annual, international award-winning million-dollar giveaway, the Chevrolet Cruze Million Dollar Shootout. On […]