City council and senior staff have begun deliberations on the city’s more-than $10-million budget, with two all-day meetings Sunday and Monday. “(Discussions) were absolutely positive and productive, moving us forward as a team and helping us set the city’s direction,” said Mayor Lawrence Chernoff. Councillor Sue Heaton-Sherstobitoff...

As many may already be aware, the Kootenays have a combination of geology and gas permeable soils that make homes and workplaces susceptible to high concentrations of radioactive radon.  It surprised me to learn that the radiation from radioactive radon gas found in homes and workplaces is estimated to cause 16 percent of the...

The West Kootenay Eco Society (WKES) is heading to court early next week to challenge the provincial government’s 2012 decision to establish the Jumbo Glacier Resort (JGR) Municipality. On Feb. 23, the WKES will be in Vancouver at BC Supreme Court to ask a judge for a judicial review of a decision by the Minister of Tourism,...

Groups are lining up to offer criticism of the 2015 BC Budget brought down Tuesday by Minister of Finance Michael de Jong at the Legislature in Victoria. From the BC School Trustees Association to the BC Federation of Labour to the BC Nurses Union,  organizations lined up to voice displeasure with the Liberal budget. However,...

Nelson city council made an historic decision on Monday night to approve the Stores to Shores Revitalization Project, but in slightly a different form that saw some last-minute revisions added to the plan for the first phase. Changes to the project, which will transform the face of Hall Street from Lake Street to IODE Park,...

Government policies are normally designed to help citizens as they try to move up the economic ladder, not penalize them for trying. And on that one count alone, this week's budget from Finance minister Mike de Jong is an abject failure. In its budget highlights, the B.C. government presented four scenarios to bolster its...

BC Finance Minister Michael de Jong delivered the government’s third consecutive balanced budget saying the document builds toward a stronger and more diversified economy and delivers additional support to British Columbians who are most in need. However, not everyone is lining up to jump on the bandwagon of the Liberal Finance...

The B.C. government’s third consecutive balanced budget builds toward a stronger and more diversified economy and delivers additional support to British Columbians who are most in need, Finance Minister Michael de Jong announced today. “The discipline we showed through the recession to bring the budget into balance has given...

Council approves Shores to Stores project in close vote After discussing the issue earlier in the day, Nelson City Council passed a motion approving the Stores to Shores Downtown Revitalization project in what was a close vote. Despite being divided on certain aspects of the project, council gave the first phase of the project...

The ShutDownCanada protests held across Canada Friday afternoon failed to deliver the bang activists had hoped would happen. In Nelson, as was the case in most major cities in Canada, only a handful of protesters took to Baker Street to call for independent inquiry into the 2000+ cases of missing or murdered indigenous women...