BC Hockey, along with the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL), the Pacific Junior Hockey League (PJHL) and the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League (VIJHL) announced Thursday that the Kimberley Dynamiters (KIJHL) will host the 2024 BC Hockey Junior A Championship, April 18-21, 2024. BC Hockey said in a media release that the four-team tournament […]

The local golf season may be nearing an end, but Granite Pointe Manager of Golf Operations, Nick Kennedy, is already gearing up for the 2024 campaign. Not only did Kennedy experience success on the links this season, but the Granite Pointe Manager of Golf Operations earned a nomination to the 2023 PGA of BC Jock […]

Nelson Soccer grad Ryan Lewis has earned not one, but two major awards for his goal-scoring weekend on the Canada West Men’s Soccer circuit. Tuesday, for the second time in his Thompson Rivers University WolfPack soccer career, Lewis was selected Canada West men’s soccer player of the week. Then on Wednesday, the WolfPack forward earned the […]

Retallack made it look easy, outlasting a injury-prone Jackson’s Hole team to capture the 2023 Nelson Soccer Men’s Masters Title recently at the Lakeside Pitch. Retllack opened up a 4-0 lead at halftime before cruising to the Master’s Title. The team includes, Terrence Moore, Ivan Gerlitz, David Little, Xavier Schutter, Eric Crosland, Brett Adams, Andre […]

Dawson Abraham of the Kootenay Chaos Track Club has quite a week on the cross country running circuit. The Nelsonite traveled to Spokane during the weekend to capture a race in the Lilac City. Abraham, who attends Trafalgar Middle School, won the 5km race in a time of 16 minutes, 30 seconds. Abraham was competing […]

A quartet of fighters from the Nelson Boxing and Athletics Club jumped onto the international stage at the Celtic Box Cup, held September 23-27 in the town of Dungarvan, Waterford, Ireland. Milane D’Aurelie, Lola Brouillette, Riel Martinez, and Porter Hansen, travelled to Ireland to compete as part of BC’s Provincial Team of 25 Athletes and […]

The L.V. Rogers Bombers opened the High School Girls Volleyball season with a Bronze medal finish at the 32-team tournament held over the weekend at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. The Bombers defeated Vernon’s Fulton Secondary by forfeit in the Tier 2 Final. LVR finished third in pool play, losing to Mount Boucherie before defeating […]

The Nelson Leafs hit the ground running to open the 2023-24 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League season. The Leafs doubled up on the Revelstoke Grizzlies 4-2 Friday at the NDCC Arena. Nelson Minor Hockey grad Seamus Boyd scored twice and Jackson McLeod stopped 23 of 25 shots to power the Green and White past the […]

We Are Back The Westcoast was pretty phenomenal this year.  Plenty of fish and plenty of fun. It may have started a bit slow for salmon in the first week or two of July, but was made up for with unbelievable Ling cod and Halibut fishing. After the slower start, we began to see salmon […]

Team Balfour came away as the Low Gross winner at the annual West Kootenay Challenge held recently at the Balfour Golf Club. Nine different golf clubs in the West Kootenay’s participated in the annual West Kootenay Challenge with eight Ladies from each course joining together in team format to represent and compete for Low Gross […]