Students in parts of Kootenay Lake School District are not in class today due to a Snow Day said a media release Monday morning. "To ensure the safety of all our staff and students, schools will be closed today for Nelson, Salmo, Slocan Valley and Kaslo Family of Schools," the media release said. "Creston schools are still ...

It’s a grind for post-secondary students just to find ends meet with the high cost of school and housing. Now more and more post-secondary students in the West Kootenay are having to join fellow undergrads at university or college in B.C., forced to use food banks to stay nourished. Which is why the Selkirk College Student ...

Students, parents, children, instructors, politicians, staff and the public joined together Wednesday afternoon to welcome a new campus-based child care centre at Selkirk College in Nelson. Katrine Conroy, Minister of Children and Family Development made the announcement of the new child care centre that will provide 24...

Graduating students in the School of Business at Selkirk College put their education into action for a case competition focused on a northern Ontario First Nation. Teams of students created mocked-up economic development plans for the Atikameksheng First Nation and presented their proposals to a panel of local judges that...

More than 330 support staff in the Kootenay Lake School District have joined other union members in the province that have come to an agreement on a three-year contract with the BC Public School Employers' Association. In a media release Thursday, Kootenay Lake School District unionized support staff ratified the three-year...

The roof of Selkirk College’s main building on the Castlegar Campus has been transformed as the regional post-secondary focuses on a future less reliant on non-renewable energy sources. In October, the college installed a solar array on the roof of the library that includes 275 panels with the capacity to produce an estimated...

It has been a long road to recovery for a cat who was found emaciated and terrified inside a shipping container in April. The stowaway cat, who was later named Journey, survived a harrowing three-week voyage from Shenzhen, China to the Port of Vancouver before being discovered hiding in a crate delivered to an auto glass...

“What we need is for our politicians and the people in power start to listen to the current, best available science.” – Greta Thunberg, age 16 “We cannot leave it to young people to fight this fight for their future by themselves.” – Jane Fonda, age 81 The word science comes from the Latin scientia meaning knowledge, especially...

Days after the United Nations raised yet another red flag in the climate change crusade, Fridays for Future Nelson will hold a rally, complete with clothing swap and march through the downtown core, Friday, November 29th. The event set is for the streets of Nelson on Black Friday, the day after American Thanksgiving where...

In a media release Monday, the BC Government said at 1:55 p.m. (Pacific time) on Wednesday, November 27, 2019, a test of B.C.’s wireless alerting system will be conducted as part of the national Alert Ready system to improve public safety in the event of emergency.   The release said this is part of a biannual test of the...