David A Gabel, Environmental News Network It has been called the holy grail of energy technology; a perfectly clean source with an unlimited supply. Nuclear fusion has been demonstrated to be possible, but converting it to a viable energy source remains technically elusive. However, research on making fusion energy reality ...

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Information is a great tool in the kit of any municipality, allowing it to forge policy, planning and decision-making. However, it is in short supply for resource-starved rural governments in the West Kootenay. That will change after the announcement Saturday afternoon of an eight-year...

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Although police won’t speculate on the economic ramifications of their summer grow operation busting activity, they have managed to take a bite out of the meal ticket of what they consider to be “organized crime.” The Kootenay Boundary Regional Detachment took over 20,000 marijuana plants...

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily The fate of Jumbo Glacier Valley is nearly at hand. In August of 2009 the decision making power for the Jumbo Glacier Resort passed from the Regional District of East Kootenay to the province. The RDEK board of director’s vote went eight to seven in favour of asking the provincial government...

By Suzanne Fournier, The Province U.S. border agents found more than $9 million worth of Ecstasy in “suspicious” backpacks stashed in the woods just south of the border at Grand Forks. Acting on a tip from a hiker, U.S. agents near the border-patrol station in Curlew, Wash., seized 140 kilograms of the popular designer drug...

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Nelson is guaranteed a share in the over 400 new jobs created in the Waneta Dam expansion on the Pend d’Oreille River, says the Columbia Basin Trust’s vice president of investments.Johnny Strilaeff said a prescription is in place to ensure that 85 per cent of the new jobs will come from ...

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily There may be a way around the resultant high cost of library service for some regional district residents in Area E, despite a resounding ‘no’ vote delivered in the Nelson Municipal Library referendum Saturday, says the area’s director. Ramona Faust said she is working on a solution to...

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily There won’t be another referendum on library services in Area F. The regional district’s director for the area has decided the extra $7,000 needed to conduct another referendum — after an initial taxpayer-funded vote passed by a margin of only three votes — is too much. Ron Mickel told the...

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily A grove op is planned for the green space in Lions Park next year. The city service club the Lions will soon be taking the operation of removing old, dying and soon-to-be falling trees and putting in a grove of new trees to keep the Uphill green space a leafy green. The imminent demise of...

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily The game may still be afoot in the regional district’s library referenda. With initial reports showing the referenda passing in two of three districts Saturday night, Monday morning brought a different light to the proceedings. The recount on Monday put the ‘yes’ vote — whether or not to...