News

The BC River Forecast Centre has lifted a high streamflow advisory for the Salmo River.

As a result of high turbidity from spring runoff, the Regional District of Central Kootenay has issued an advisory for users of the Riondel water system.

A $250 donation of a tree to commemorate January’s fire at the Kerr Apartments has councillor Margaret Stacey asking for city council to come up with a policy for donating money after disasters.

Nelson’s spring burning period is on now, and runs until the end of the month.

First it was grizzly bears, then a rabid bat, and now Nelsonites may have a cougar to worry about.

A 27-year-old man was arrested at the Nelson liquor store around 4 p.m. Saturday. Staff caught him shoplifting and prevented him from leaving.

A local consortium’s plan to redevelop the old Nelson Daily News building into offices, retail, and potentially condos is being welcomed by neighbours and others.

Two of the boys charged in the theft of $45,000 worth of goods from an Uphill home last month got in trouble again over the weekend.

A local courier is warning South Nelson residents about a bat that scratched him last week — which he worries could be rabid.

By a stroke of luck, a North Shore resident helping with earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in Japan met two Nelson homestay students. Mary Nishio recounts the devastation she witnessed at Onagawa.