Thursday saw RCMP execute two search warrants, resulting in the seizure of hundreds of marijuana plants and the arrest of two local men. The first warrant, executed in Thrums, saw police seize 582 mature plants as well as associated growing equipment, and 45-year-old homeowner Ca Senh Voong was arrested and has been charged with production […]

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily The plans are now in the bag for carbon neutrality in three regional districts, 28 municipalities and several First Nations. The Carbon Neutral Kootenays (CNK) project completed phase one of the work of detailing carbon neutral action plans for the Regional Districts of Central Kootenay, East Kootenay and Kootenay […]

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily There was no consonance in the accident Monday morning when a logging truck overturned on a sharp “S” curve on Highway 6 southeast of Salmo. Around 8:25 a.m. a northbound logging truck overturned on the highway just north of the Nelway Border Crossing, southeast of Salmo.   The truck had...

 I think most of us, even in the New Millennium, would find the combination of Christmas and sex toys a startling one … but Passion Party consultant Tina McIntosh said we might be really missing out if we dismiss the idea out of hand. McIntosh even has catalogues featuring holiday gift packages and combinations of […]

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson DailyA “resource-intensive” investigation by the RCMP in the West Kootenay/Boundary region in the last four months has resulted in 21 people being charged with 43 drug trafficking offences. Members of the Kootenay Boundary Regional Detachment plain clothes General Investigation Section embarked...

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily The Columbia Basin Trust is well positioned for future disbursements of cash to local communities thanks to the Crown corporation embarking on the Waneta Dam expansion project, says the CBT’s president and chief executive officer. In the wake of signing the deal on the $900-million expansion to the dam […]

Due to a cabinet shuffle on Monday, there are new contact people for the pending Jumbo Wild decision, advises a member of the West Kootenay EcoSociety.Coordinator David Reid said in wake of a pending decision on creating a “resort municipality” in the Jumbo Glacier Valley — to allow a 6,500-bed resort town — and the cabinet...

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Several regional district directors have called for the Waneta Dam expansion to expand its scope of what it deems a ‘local’ hire. Currently the Columbia Basin Trust — a 49 per cent stakeholder in the $900-million expansion on the Pend d’Oreille River south of Trail — had required that […]

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Information is a great tool in the kit of any municipality, allowing it to forge policy, planning and decision-making. However, it is in short supply for resource-starved rural governments in the West Kootenay. That will change after the announcement Saturday afternoon of an eight-year...

By Suzanne Fournier, The Province    U.S. border agents found more than $9 million worth of Ecstasy in “suspicious” backpacks stashed in the woods just south of the border at Grand Forks. Acting on a tip from a hiker, U.S. agents near the border-patrol station in Curlew, Wash., seized 140 kilograms of the popular designer […]