November’s mild weather is going to look pretty good next week as Mother Nature whips up some cooler weather for the region during the next week. Environment Canada forecasts temperatures as cold as minus 9 C with snow during the end of the week. That’s in stark contrast to November says Ron Lakeman, Weather Forecasterfor the...

The Elk Valley Regional RCMP is seeking the assistance of the public in their investigation of a missing person. On Saturday (December 3) , Jeremy Roy Scott Wellman was reported missing to the RCMP.  The 32-year-old man was last seen at around 7 p.m. on Friday (December 2), when he went to get gas in Fernie, BC. Wellman is ...

There a great new sport in Nelson — and it's called Pickleball. Nelson pickleball has taken over Selkirk College's Mary Hall gym on Sunday for an afternoon of continuous play on five courts. For people unaware of the sport, pickleball is the fastest growing game in North America, especially with the 55-plus crowd. But anyone...

It's December 1, meaning less than a month before Christmas Day. While shoppers are busy finding that perfect gift, so are scammers busy trying to steal away any, or all, of the happiness that goes with the festive season. The Better Business Bureau says Canadians typically spend in the range of 30 billion dollars over the ...

Exhausted from three days of travelling from Turkey, a young refugee couple from Syria has arrived in Rossland with their baby son.  When their plane landed in Castlegar on November 29, Teysir and Heba Misto and their baby were welcomed by members of the West Kootenay Friends of Refugees, with the help of a young Arabic-speaking...

Castlegar Rotary is taking fundraising to new heights, with an event this Friday that's sure to make participants high on giving. The event, slated for Dec. 2 from 4:45 to 5:15 p.m. in front of City Hall, will see a scissor-lift race, putting some of our finest citizens 30 feet into the air in a race to the highest dollar...

Castlegar firefighters earned their keep and then some Monday, with eight calls spanning the course of about 14 hours, according to fire chief Gerry Rempel. Rempel said the first call came in at 4:25 a.m., for a two-vehicle MVA in the 2700 block of Columbia Avenue. Ambulance and RCMP were on scene when fire crews arrived. The...

The West Kootenay Global Awareness Network (WKGAN) and The BC Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC) met with community leaders in Nelson recently to discuss the new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how our community is tackling them. In September of 2016, 193 nations signed the agreement, moving...

Two long-standing investigations, the length of which have caused some outrage in the region, may finally be drawing to a close, according to Independent Investigations Office acting director of public engagement and policy Marten Youssef. Both investigations involve officer-involved fatal shootings, the first of Slocan...

Dear Editor, On behalf of a large concerned group of students and local community members, it has come to our attention that there is a lack of senior support financially in the Kootenays, let alone across the province. The local Senior outreach and support program (SOS) under the Castlegar district community services that ...