The Wild & Scenic Film Festival Tour is stopping in Nelson on Friday, June 12 for a cinematic evening of stories set in wild landscapes around the world. Join Wildsight for a journey to spectacular places and tales of adventures living life outside — all with a conservation mindset. The Wild & Scenic Film Festival, ...

The Oxygen Art Centre will open their summer season with the arrival of multi-talented international dancer and choreographer Shannon Cooney. Energetically titled Dynamic Expansion Cooney’s presence at the center and around town will be invigorating as Cooney brings with her a progressive pulse of the contemporary dance world...

Saturday (May 30) the West Kootenay Family Historians Society is offering an Introduction to Genealogy Workshop at Touchstones Nelson’s Shawn Lamb Archives. The workshop is set to run from 1:30-4 p.m. The workshop will include short presentations on traditional genealogical research and online research, along with one-on-one...

British Columbia has the lowest smoking rate in Canada – just 11.4 percent -- and so has much to celebrate this World No Tobacco Day (May 31). The BC Lung Association believes we can do better still, and is calling on the 500,000 British Columbians who continue to smoke to commit to a 24 hour quit by signing up for the Tobacco...

Friends of Kootenay Lake are pleased to announce that this week the organization is starting the third and final year of a three-year water quality monitoring program.  The study will provide important baseline data for one of the highest populated portions of the lake and to encourage a broader and deeper understanding the...

Your family loves your home – it is the centre of your life together, after all – but that mortgage! You can handle it. You did your due diligence and you know it’s affordable and that, some day, it will be paid off … unless: What would happen if you die? Will your family be able to pay off that monster debt? Of course, you...

Upgrades to the RDCK’s Balfour and Kaslo waste transfer stations will soon commence as the RDCK awarded the contract to McNally Excavating of Nelson at the monthly Board meeting Thursday. Construction was scheduled to begin in May but the RDCK rejected all of the original tenders for being over the approved project budget. ...

West Kootenay EcoSociety invites the region to Spring into Spring with a unique fundraising dinner on (Saturday) May 30th. The banquet hall at the Hume hotel will take on a garden theme, with plants and many other items available for silent auction. Rob Funk, recently returned from Japan, will provide live music. The dinner...

A two million dollar silver heist might sound like the stuff of fiction, but in Alicia Priest’s memoir A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist, the events of that time couldn’t be closer to home for the author. Priest, who recently passed away, was a respected journalist whose in-depth investigation...

Starting this September, the University of B.C. will offer in Nelson a creative writing course focused on community that will help students develop their skills in writing non-fiction, fiction, poetry and drama.  The credit course will be open both to anyone who qualifies for UBC entrance, and to unclassified students: members...