Environment Canada ended its Weather Alert for the West Kootenay region. However, the region is still expected to receive 5 to 10 mm of rain through Wednesday. Thursday, the region can expect to see a 60 percent chance of rain. Slow moving low pressure extend Weather Alert Environment Canada continued its weather alert for ...

Police are concerned with the increase in speed and alcohol-related incidents on the highways in the region said Sgt. John Ferguson, NCO of the West Kootenay Traffic Services in a prepared statement Friday. "The West Kootenay Traffic Services and Nelson Integrated Road Safety Unit are starting to see a very scary trend in our...

Nelson qualified for the finals, but ended up losing out to Chillwack in “Best of the Best” Tap Water Taste Test Challenge at the B.C.Water and Waste Association conference Thursday at Prospera Place in Kelowna. The competition format was based on a taste test held annually at the American Water Works Association Annual...

High expectations quickly turned to harsh reality for BC Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko and Kootenay/Columbia rep David Wilks following a meeting Wednesday with Air Canada officials. The two Kootenay MPs met with Air Canada VP Government Affairs, Industry and Corporate Strategy Derek Vanstone to discuss the future of ...

About the podcast: The You Can Do That Here! podcast is produced by Andrew Zwicker of AZcreative for the Kootenay Association for Science and Technology. The podcast is a weekly series of 30 minute conversations with some of the most innovative and successful entrepreneurs in the Kootenays. You can CLICK PLAY on the triangle...

On Tuesday, May 26 the Sentinal Unit Crew from the Southeast Fire Centre discovered this baby owl on the Little Bobtail Lake fire. He had fallen from his nest and was too young to fly. He was rescued by a Wildfire Management Branch Falling Coordinator based out of the Cobble Hill Zone in the Coastal Fire Centre. A wildlife ...

Derek Vanstone, VP Government Affairs, Industry And Corporate Strategy Air Canada Dear Mr. Vanstone, Thank you very much for taking the time to meet with us to discuss the future of the West Kootenay Regional Airport. As you are aware, technology currently exists to improve the reliability of airports such as our Airport in...

High school students from across the West Kootenay-Boundary received a taste for post-secondary life last week at the annual Experience Selkirk Day. More than 400 students descended on Selkirk College’s Castlegar Campus, Tenth Street Campus and Kootenay Studio Arts Campus to take in morning workshops and afternoon games. It...

Interior Health is advising the public of an outbreak of salmonellosis related to contact with live baby poultry originating from a hatchery in Alberta. The investigation, involving IH, the BC Centre for Disease Control, BC health authorities, BC Ministry of Agriculture, Public Health Agency of Canada and provincial partners,...

Nelson Police were forced to use a Conducted Energy Weapon (CEW) to disarm a distraught woman with a knife Sunday at an apartment building in the Heritage City. Nelson Police Department Acting Sergeant Brian Weber said in a prepared statement said the woman became enraged, and started toward the officers with a knife in hand....