Tuesday the first day of the 2012-13 school term in Nelson. Always an exciting time for children, motorists must be aware that children, young and old, will be occupying the streets and roadways for the next ten months, give or take a few days. Which is why drivers must pay extra attention as, on average according to ICBC, ...

North Vancouver primary teacher Ian Cunliffe spent the past weekend running through the Boundary as part of his 22 Marathons Against Bill 22 campaign across BC. He is running the width of the province over 22 days as a public protest against Bill 22, which was recently introduced in the provincial legislature in response to...

There's a new post-secondary school in the West Kootenay. Well, technically, it's an upgrade of Selkirk College as the local school has brought together three program areas that reflect different aspects of the arts. The new School of the Arts includes Digital Arts and New Media, Contemporary Music and Technology, and Craft...

Beginning this September parents who choose to send their children to a school outside of the catchment area where they live will have to pay $20 a month or $200 a year for busing expenses, said school district superintendent Jeff Jones. Last year the district had 500 students, or roughly 10 per cent of the student population,...

The School District 8 Kootenay Lake Education Board faced a room of more than 60 concerned teachers, parents and students demanding they review their budget priorities during the regular meeting, Tuesday, June 19. “A lot of teachers voiced concern about the way in which the board has handled the budget,” said Nelson and...

Science camps offering a fun, interactive learning environment with some basic electricity, chemistry, physics, and biology will be running this summer in Grand Forks and Christina Lake. The three camps, running through Selkirk College, are for youth ages six - 12 years-of-age.  Camps are three days in duration with two taking...

When Reanna Donald and Eddie Podovelnikoff stepped to the podium during the Mount Sentinel Graduation Ceremonies, the crowd began to stir. Both Donald and Podovelnikoff could feel a bit of tension, so both began to chime into a three-minute-plus comedy sketch about their time at the South Slocan high school. The sketch quickly...

Interior Health is reminding residents to take extra precautions against mosquito bites this summer.  West Nile virus, a disease that is spread from infected birds to humans through mosquito bites, has been present in B.C. since 2009. West Nile virus (WNv) was first detected in B.C. in the South Okanagan during the summer of...

By Marian Wang in ProPublica. A few months after he buried his son, Francisco Reynoso began getting notices in the mail. Then the debt collectors came calling. "They would say, 'We don't care what happened with your son, you have to pay us,'" recalled Reynoso, a gardener from Palmdale, Calif. Reynoso's son, Freddy, had been...

Clean. Drain. Dry. These simple steps will prevent zebra mussels and other aquatic invasive species from spreading into the waterways of the Kootenays. Aquatic invasive species, such as zebra mussels, Eurasian water-milfoil and New Zealand mudsnails have devastating impacts where they are introduced. They can ruin fishing and...