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Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall says a “severe lack of funding” for B.C.’s provincial courts is starving the justice system to death.

With a wealth of great terrain and some excellent snow, there’s plenty for backcountry skiers to love about Nelson.

Nelson council is looking for guidance from the Regional District of Central Kootenay as it ponders whether to include the Sinixt Nation in a new First Nations protocol for the city.

When the snow falls next winter, city residents may have to grab their shovels and get out on the pavement before 11 a.m., just like their business-owning counterparts.

The City of Nelson is asking other communities for assistance as it puts pressure on the province to take another look at its handling of contract negotiations for fire and police services.

The campaign to raise $1 million by April 15 to buy the old Savoy Hotel and turn it into low-cost housing, retail, and church space has a name: Square Foot to Freedom.

Mike Farnworth laughs when asked if he’s a throwback to the Glen Clark era in B.C. politics. It’s a line his Liberal rivals use often when speaking of the NDP — “We don’t want to go back to the ‘90s.” But he brushes it off: “It’s 2011. If that’s where they’re stuck at, I think that says more about them than it does me, the NDP, or anybody else.”