If the B.C. government is ever on the hunt for a new slogan perhaps “spending our children's inheritance” would be fitting.  Since 2001, British Columbians have been witness to the sale of key parts of B.C.'s infrastructure, transfers of its wealth to private interests and sweetheart deals for industries that can afford...

This article summarizes the presentations made at the Committee of the Whole meeting on January 21, 2013. RDCK: Major waste management changes in the works Uli Wolf, General Manager of Environmental Services and Mike Morrison, Resource Recovery Manager with the Regional District of Central Kootenay, updated Council on the...

A local contractor is bringing an innovative edge to the revitalization of the CPR station at the foot of Baker Street by using local, recycled materials and a simple, age-old technology to increase energy efficiency. Joern Wingender has just manufactured 8500 bricks made of wood waste and clay.  The wood shavings, chips, and...

A peaceful group of approximately 120 young and old supporters came together at the City Hall Courtyard in Nelson as part of the Idle No More National Day of Protest. The Nelson rally was one of many held throughout Canada as protestors continue to try to send a message to the Federal Conservative government. “Stand up for ...

Rosemont residents will have a chance to see the plans for the skateboard park proposed for Art Gibbons Park (a.k.a. Rosemont Park) at a public meeting on January 24. The meeting, to be set up in an open house format, will start at 7pm at the Rosemont School. The event will give residents an opportunity to learn about the...

There is an Idle No More Rally is scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday (January 16) in the courtyard in front of Nelson City Hall. Idle No More Rallies have sprung up across Canada as a show of solidarity with First Nations calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to repeal portions of Bill C-45. Idle No More supporters vow to...

The Kootenay Climbing Association is negotiating with Selkirk College to create a climbing facility in part of the gym at Mary Hall on the Tenth Street Campus. “We see it becoming part of a social hub for the community up there,” the association's Scott Jeffery told The Nelson Daily. “We want to have a junior climbing team,...

By Suzy Hamilton, The Nelson Daily Blewett residents have about three weeks remaining to review the Area E Official Community Plan and vote on whether they will join the rest of Area E in the land use plan. The vote, called a plebiscite, is non-binding. However Area E director Ramona Faust says the vote result will determine...

Historians, archaeologists, and palaeontologists focus on pivotal moments around which separate eras seem to hinge. It is no different in other disciplines as ecologists define community edges and philosophers erect words around meaning. Meanwhile, down on Planet Earth, climbers, bikers, skiers, and boaters flow over their ...

Canada and B.C. targeted funding to support business development, innovation, food safety, and sustainability under the Growing Forward agreement in the first quarter of 2012-13. Growing Forward is a five-year framework that co-ordinates federal, provincial and territorial agricultural policy. Between April 1 and June 30,...