Nelson Police Department was called to an altercation involving two males Wednesday evening at the Occupy Nelson camp in front of Nelson City Hall.At 7:30 p.m., NPD attended the scene where two males were engaged in a verbal dispute and disturbance.NPD members conducted an investigation into the incident and it was alleged ...

By Braden Goyette in ProPublicaAs protests supporting Occupy Wall Street have swelled in recent weeks, hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested across the U.S. This weekend, nearly 100 people were arrested in New York and 175 in Chicago. More than 100 protesters were arrested in Boston last week; a few weeks ago, 700 were...

U.S. presidential candidate Herman Cain denied a suggestion from Huffington Post reporter Amanda Terkel that his 9-9-9 tax plan derived from Maxis' 2003 computer game SimCity 4. During an interview that aired on The Rachel Maddow Show Friday, Cain bluntly characterized the suggestion as "a lie". Cain, the former CEO of...

A global call was put out for a day of action on October 15th, 2011.  Inspired by the swelling movement at “Occupy Wall Street” and hundreds of similar protests around the world, Vancouver residents answered the beckon.  This morning marked the inception of Vancouver’s Occupy Movement with thousands converging at the Vancouver...

Some of the “Orange Crush” wave of newly-elected, young Quebec MPs will be in the West Kootenays at the end of October, joining in on local events. On Saturday, October 29th at the Fireside Inn in Castlegar, the federal NDP Riding Association of BC Southern Interior will be holding its Annual General Meeting from 1:00 to 3:00...

Increasing places for international students in our post-secondary system is good for British Columbia, however, it needs to be done right.  On the one hand, increasing international education adds revenue to our provincial economy, a benefit for all British Columbians. On the other, it places greater strain on our already ...

Nelsonites are invited to comment on a policy project for better regulation of natural resource roads.The Natural Resource Road Act Project aims to establish a single legislative framework for the use, construction, maintenance and management of resource roads.   This simplified process will create certainty about rules and...

 A meeting in early October in Vancouver by the BC Public Schools Employers’ Association did not entertain the notion of a lockout of teachers at this point as contract negotiations have stalled.The BC Teachers Federation is still locked in contract negotiations with the British Columbia School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA),...

 The level of Kootenay Lake is of concern to most who reside near the water’s edge, but of the 50 people that showed up to the Sept. 22 meeting in Nelson most of them had more of a professional interest. Although there is “some” concern in the coastal communities over the Kootenay Lake levels, Area D director Andy Shadrack ...

By Lois Beckett in ProPublica.By the end of this year, the State Department will decide whether to give a Canadian company permission to construct a 1,700-mile, $7 billion pipeline that would transport crude oil from Canada to refineries in Texas.  The project has sparked major environmental concerns, particularly in Nebraska,...