The BC Ombudsperson has identified a serious lack of progress by the Ministry of Children and Family Development on a 2021 Ombudsperson report with troubling findings about separate confinement of youth in custody centres. “The ministry’s inaction continues to expose vulnerable youth in its care to the risk of significant harm from separate confinement, especially […]

The first single from a new women’s ensemble, Lyyra, is composed by Nelson’s own Don Macdonald. The video of ‘When the Earth Stands Still’ by Macdonald is on YouTube here. Macdonald, featured in this week’s Hall Printing Daily Dose feature, published the song around a decade ago with a choral music publisher in the US, […]

The West Kootenay is the wet Kootenay compared to the rest of the province when it comes to snow accumulation this spring. According to the Snow Survey and Water Supply Bulletin — issued by the B.C. Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship on April 1 — the West Kootenay region was sitting at 72 […]

A ‘cease-and-desist’ order has been issued to the Province and Slocan Integral Forestry Cooperative by Slocan Valley residents demanding abandonment of plans to cut trees and build a road in a sensitive watershed. Residents of Paradise Valley — located 50 kilometres north of Nelson in Winlaw off of Highway 6 — sent the cease-and-desist letter […]

Local governments, First Nations and not-for-profit organizations in the Kootenay and Boundary regions will receive funding to promote economic diversification, clean-economy opportunities and infrastructure development. “Rural communities throughout B.C. have told us which projects are the most important for growing and diversifying their local economies and we’re helping them get those projects off the ground,” […]

Nearly doubling the hourly parking rates in Nelson’s downtown will save a double-digit tax hike, says the city’s mayor. Janice Morrison defended the rise in parking rates — from $1.25 per hour to $2 — claiming that, without the revenue from parking fees, Nelson property taxes would need to increase by 13 per cent to […]

Two Castlegar residents have been charged with drug trafficking after a 2023  investigation Castlegar RCMP said in a media release Friday. RCMP said on May 18, 2023, the Castlegar RCMP’s Crime Reduction Unit, with support from frontline general duty officers, executed a pair of search warrants in connection with an active investigation into drug trafficking. […]

Nelson Police continues to investigate an incident Friday morning near Hume School of a person waving a firearm. Nelson Police said in a media release that at approximately 11 a.m., the officers responded to an individual waving a firearm around in the 300 block of Nelson Avenue. Nelson Police said that several officers attended to […]

The Nelson Police Department is expressing its deepest gratitude to the public for their assistance in apprehending a man wanted in relation to numerous files from multiple jurisdictions Friday. In a media release Friday afternoon, Nelson Police said Aza Tobias Hanbury was located and apprehended without incident in the 200 block of Baker Street thanks […]

In a media release Thursday, Interior Health issued a DRUG ADVISORY for theWest Kootenay area as there has been samples of DOWN tested with high concentrations of fluorofentanyl and bromazolam. Interior Health is advising the public to remember that flurorofentanyl ranges from equal to more potent than fentanyl and benzodiazepine produce amnesia and sedation. Interior […]