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While construction crews have begun closing the trenches opened on the block of Stanley Street below the Nelson Public Library, there’s plenty of drilling and digging still to come in the downtown core.

BC Hydro says electrical system improvements in the Lardeau and Howser area on Wednesday will force a power outage from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Last month was the second-coldest April since local recordkeeping began in 1966.

The Nelson Police Department says three city residents were the victims of an unprovoked attack early Sunday, including one who was assaulted with bear spray.

Voters in the BC Southern Interior have returned the New Democrat to Ottawa for another term, but the veteran MP says going back to the Hill as a member of the official opposition will bring new challenges – not least wrangling with a majority Conservative government

The three who failed to knock off incumbent Alex Atamanenko on Monday speak about what went wrong.

The school board office on Anderson Street in Nelson, long vacant, was demolished Monday morning to make way for a $7 million housing project for people at risk of homelessness.

Disturbing downtown incident has Nelson Police Department looking for leads.

Members of several Nelson-area volunteer fire departments received a crash course recently on how to handle wildfires threatening homes.

Okanagan-Shuswap MP Colin Mayes says local Conservative candidate Stephen Hill deserves credit for “indirectly” helping obtain the order-in-council that transferred Nelson’s historic CP Rail station to the city.