Nelson City Council decided at a special regular meeting yesterday that it needs to find a different approach to the pruning of the city’s trees that grow under and around power lines. This came as a result of public complaints about tree pruning done this summer by a contractor working for Nelson Hydro. For the remainder of...

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”                      – Margaret Mead Citizens are persons owing allegiance to and entitled to the protection of a sovereign state. The term citizen has an urban origin, derived from the Anglo-Norman...

The ninth independent and non-partisan British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission wants your input on the area, boundaries and names of provincial electoral districts to be used for the next two provincial general elections. “Now is the time to have your say and shape your province,” says Commission Chair Justice Tom ...

Columbia Basin Trust is asking residents where it should focus its efforts to best support residents and communities in the Columbia Basin now, and into the future. The Trust is kicking off a year-long Basin-wide public engagement process starting with a series of drop-in community workshops and an interactive engagement...

John Paolozzi moved to Nelson with his wife and two sons two years ago from Vancouver where he lived for 15 years as a producer at CBC Radio. Paolozzi says he and his wife researched small towns and decided Nelson was the best in the country. Since moving here, he has served on the city’s Advisory Planning Committee and...

Okay, time to stick my head in the lion’s mouth again. I posted a photo back on Aug. 26 about the city’s new banners reading , “YOLO” and “XOXO” (neither one of which is as bad – or as funny – as the ones with goofy cartoon faces that read, “A Great Place to Grow”, here in marijuana central. Those still make me giggle every...

Teachers from across the province voted overwhelmingly to accept binding arbitration B.C. Teachers' Federation president Jim Iker said Wednesday night during a livestream news conference. More than 30,000 teachers of the 41,000 cast ballots Wednesday in voting with 30,490 of the 30,669 voted "yes" to accept binding arbitration...

Despite challenges to the fiscal plan from wildfires and flood-related costs, B.C. is currently on target to balance the 2014-15 budget, Finance Minister Michael de Jong announced Tuesday. The year-end surplus for 2014-15 is now projected to be $266 million, up by $82 million from Budget 2014. Revenues have improved by $515...

Nelson Commons has sold 29 of the total of 54 units in its proposed downtown retail-residential development, and expects to demolish the old Extra Foods building this fall after it has closed another four sales that are in process. The number of pre-sales that are needed to break ground has gone down to 33 from last fall’s ...

Letter to the Editor: The continuing battle between the BCTF and the Provincial Ministry of Education should be of grave concern to families across B.C., and should be incredibly frightening to parents and caregivers in the Boundary and West Kootenay Region. Most conversations are about laying blame: “It’s the teacher’s fault”;...