Did you know that anyone can be a target for identity theft, at any age? The first step in preventing it from happening to your family is to understand how thieves try and intercept your information to begin with. Your mail and recycling are two of the most common sources of identity theft. Not only will identity thieves steal...

It’s a local diet of another sort. Tea Preville is cataloguing a huge body of work to publish a guidebook in 2012 and seeks community input to ensure all active spiritual locations are acknowledged.  Using her Nelson studio as epi-centre, Preville researched a 50-kilometre radius, photographed and painstakingly painted 36...

2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival @ the Capitol Theatre, Nov. 24-26 Tickets go on sale Tuesday, Nov. 1 for the three-day passes. Contact Snowpack or the Capitol Theatre (they are not available online). Tickets for individual nights can be purchased online or at the box office in person/by phone during regular hours. Nelson ...

Thirteen-year-old Kyra Burkart explored her local watershed recently and got a closer look at Anderson Creek near Nelson. She joined other Grade 8 students from Trafalgar Middle School who participated in Know Your Watershed, a Columbia Basin Trust water-stewardship initiative. Kyra and the rest of the students did water...

The results of the HungerCount 2011 survey released Tuesday show that far too many people are being left behind on Canada's road to economic recovery. HungerCount 2011 results indicate a staggering 26 per cent increase in food bank use between 2008 and 2011. The report highlights that in a typical month, food banks across the...

The B.C. government is hoping to reduce metal theft, including the wholesale plundering of copper telephone lines, with new legislation that requires scrap metal dealers to report their purchases to police. Under the proposed law, dealers will have to record the names and addresses of metal sellers, and where the seller got...

The Mir Centre for Peace regrets to inform that Greg Mortenson has cancelled his speaking engagement, scheduled for Nov. 2. For those who have already purchased tickets, please return your ticket to the purchase location for a full refund.  If you purchased by credit card, please return your tickets to the Selkirk College...

The Corporation of the City of Nelson proposes to amend the City of Nelson Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 3114, 2008. The purpose of the Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 3218 is to incorporate targets and objectives for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions within the City of Nelson as required under section...

The Province will open the Thompson River steelhead catch and release sport fishery for the remainder of 2011, effective Saturday, Oct. 29. The Thompson steelhead fishery has remained closed for the past two years due to low returns. Data collected and analyzed this month by ministry staff show the fishery is now sufficiently...

There is chaos in the literary community. The Kootenay Literary Competition is now open and the theme this year for the adult competition is “chaos” in all its forms. This annual writing event is open to all writers in the entire Kootenay region. This year there will two distinct competitions: one for adults and another just...