The West Kootenay United squad won the bronze medal in the BC Senior Games 55-plus Men 's Soccer last week at the Juan de Fuca Fields outside Victoria. West Kootenay finished third in the round robin against teams from Vancouver Island South and Vancouver Island North. Vancouver Island North won the Gold Medal with Vancouver...

MaryAnn Gaschnitz and Jackie Little bested a competitive field of players to capture the Ladies 2-Ball Best Ball tournament this past week at the Balfour Golf Course. The tournament was a huge success with more than 82 players entered in the event. Linda Bobic and Pat Stone won the Low Net title. Little and Gaschnitz join...

The Nelson Skating Club is gearing up for the upcoming season following a successful summer program where the local organization hosted Olympic and World Medalist Kaetlyn Osmond as well as several provincial coaches during an off-season camp. The high-level coaching staff, that included Osmond and National/Provincial Level ...

Aidan Burt and Roman van’t Land had one of their best fishing weekends ever at Johnson’s Landing on Kootenay Lake and topped their haul by each winning a new kayak.  The fishing friends from Nelson each entered trout heads in the Kootenay Lake Angler Incentive Program Kids’ Derby, which awards more than...

The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League has an exciting new wave of rookie talent entering the 2022-23 season, which begins on September 23 at home against the Princeton Posse. Leading up to the start of the season, the KIJHL is highlighting those players from each team. Next in the New Wave series are the Nelson...

As  Kootenay International Junior Hockey League teams begin training camps on the eve of the 2022-23 Junior B season, the league announced Friday a change to the Kootenay Conference playoff format for the upcoming season. In a media release on the KIJHL website, the league said the new format, which was necessitated by the ...

Devon Cheveldaeff and Garrett Kucher carded a round of minus 14 under par to capture the inaugural Kennedy Shootout Two-person Golf Scramble this past weekend at Granite Pointe in Nelson. Cheveldaeff and Kucher edged out Steve Simister and Brennan Maroney by one shot and Nick Kennedy and Reg Clarkson of Nelson by two strokes....

Nelson Soccer Association grad Ryan Lewis was named Canada West Soccer Player of the Week by the conference Tuesday. Lewis, who played his youth soccer in the Heritage City, scored twice this weekend to spark Thompson Rivers University Wolfpack to a pair of wins over University of BC Thunderbirds and University of Victoria ...

More than 50 players, from all over the Kootenay region, and as far away as the Okanagan, the Lower Mainland and even Mexico, registered to do battle at the West Kootenay Rob Wright Open Tennis Tournament, hosted recently by the Nelson Tennis Club. Though the competition was as hot as the mid-afternoon temperatures, the local...

The Nelson Neptune Swim Club wrapped up a stellar season at the British Columbia Summer Swimming Association Provincial Championship in Kamloops this last weekend (August 18-21) with 17 medals earned by 20 swimmers from the club. The return to competition for the first time since 2019, saw the club grow to 74 swimmers, the ...