Kaslo RCMP and the BC Coroners Service are investigating the sudden death of woman who died while snowboarding on a Wednesday, Dec. 29 afternoon. The woman was a guest with Retallack Snow Cat Ski Lodge, said RCMP senior media relations officer Cpl. Dan Moskaluk from Penticton. At around 3 p.m. the 32-year-old woman was amongst […]

Marley Bassett of Nelson was joined by a few friends to officially open the Glory Ridge triple chair at the Whitewater Ski Resort. Bassett won the raffle draw hosted by Whitewater Ski Team, the Avalanche Awareness Beyond the Boundaris, and the Nelson Food Cupboard. Rising 2,042 vertical-feet in 11 minutes, the new Glory Ridge Chair, […]

By The Nelson Daily Sports The Castlegar Rebels continue to feast on all things in Green and White. Kootenay Ice Major Midget affiliate player Jesse Knowler had four points to lead the Murdoch Division leaders to a 9-0 pounding of the Nelson Leafs in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League action Wednesday night in the Sunflower […]

Choosing the best music of the year is always difficult when there are so many interesting bands to choose from and narrowing the field to say that one is the best of all is impossible. Here’s my take on the top albums of the year, in no specific order because, well, there just isn’t one […]

The Year in Review story for 2009 was so easy to write – I could be glib and tongue-in-cheek while lampooning a maniacal pot lobby (not the sane, reasonable proponents, just the nutbars who penned missives offering to find out where I live and “knock some sense into that fat, empty head of yours.” Yikes!). […]

Police are reporting a truly bizarre interpretation of spending time with family over the holiday season, after arresting a mother and son in connection with a break-and-enter. Nelson RCMP Sgt. Darryl Little said police were called to a break-and-enter in progress at about 2 a.m. Wednesday,  in 1000 block of Cote Rd, Crescent Valley. “The […]

By The Nelson Daily SportsWhitewater Ski Resort is slowly, but surely, moving up on the Big Dogs.For the first time in more than 15 years the Nelson-based ski resort is opening a new lift. “It’s awesome,” said Whitewater General Manager Brian Cusack in a written press release.“I kinda hate that word,” Cusack adds with a […]

Nelson Fire Department reported that no one was injured after responding to a house fire a the 2300 block of Bealby Road Wednesday afternoon at Horlick’s Point east of Nelson. At approximately 3 p.m. the call came into the station that smoke was billowing from a two-bay detached garage and small building on the south […]

By The Nelson Daily Sports Marley Bassett of Nelson has won the right to the first ride heading up the new Glory Ridge triple chair at Whitewater Ski Resort. The twenty-something Bassett had the winning ticket during the raffle draw Monday at Whitewater. Bassett now joins two of friends on the first chair when the […]

By The Nelson Daily Sports It’s a rather small contingent of Nelson Leafs that heads to Fernie next month to attend the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League All Star weekend. Five players, including two veterans, made the grade to play in the All Star and Prospects games in January. Headlining the list is the Leafs’ […]