Kung Jaadee was there. Anne Glover had the crowds on the edge of their seats. Shoshana Litman, Jaymie Matthews, Magpie Ulysses and logger turned politician, Conrad “Corky” Evans, along with Richard Rowberry and Barry Gray made the 2013 Kootenay Storytelling Festival a hit not only on the stage but also at the box office. “It's...

Selkirk College has become the first community college, and fourth post-secondary institution, in Canada to achieve Fair Trade Campus designation from the Canadian Fair Trade Network. Selkirk joins the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and the University of Guelph to be among the first Canadian post-secondary...

It’s a weekend of stories. And it all begins Friday with the All-Star Opening Night Concert. The Kootenay Storytelling Festival presents a weekend of storytelling that will take you from the roots to the stars. Beginning in Procter in 1999, the Kootenay Storytelling Festival moved into Nelson in 2012, bridging the transition...

The 1stInternational Colville Rotary Cook -Off is coming soon--the first event of its kind in the area. In the planning for over one year, this Colville Rotary fundraiser will support many community projects. It will bring chefs and entertainment from British Columbia, Ritzville, Bellingham, Colville, Loon Lake, Chewelah and...

The Teck Rossland Mountain Film Festival is set to celebrate its fourteenth year of existence this November, as the annual festival runs from Wednesday the 13th to Sunday the 17th in R-Town, Rossland BC, home to Red Mountain Resort and The Seven Summits. Currently, the RMFF board is actively seeking entries from filmmakers ...

Earth Rangers will be visiting schools in the Greater Trail Area to inspire children to help Bring Back the Wild. Through support from Teck, local students will experience the Earth Rangers School Outreach Program featuring live Animal Ambassadors demonstrating their amazing natural behaviors. Earth Rangers is the kids’...

Trail residents will be coming together Sept. 29 for a festival-like event to clean up the Columbia. BC Rivers Day is celebrated province-wide, and the City of Champions is sponsoring a Shoreline Cleanup to help local people get involved with being good stewards of their waterways. City Councillor Eleanor Gattafoni Robinson,...

On Friday October 11, a seven- member edition of the Alberta-based Front Porch Roots Revue will take to the Capitol Theatre stage in Nelson and rock the house with over two- dozen cherry picked selections from the amazing songbook of The Band. It has been mroet than 35 years since The Band’s legendary Last Waltz concert and...

After a successful inaugural concert season in 2012-13, Selkirk Pro-Musica kicks off a new season September 14th with celebrated Brazilian/Canadian guitarist, percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and music educator Celso Machado. Opening night of the Selkirk Pro-Musica goes Saturday, September 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the...

A terrific late addition has been made to this year’s Rock Creek & Boundary Fall Fair with Canadian Country sensation Tim Hus taking the stage for an all ages dance and concert Saturday September 14  starting at 7 p.m. Hus has a voice sweeter than a Husqvarna chainsaw, a wit that is sharper than rusty barbed wire, and a...