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The fuel mitigation program in Rosemont’s Art Gibbon Park was fired up on Monday as crews gathered up brush and debris for the burning piles.

The head of the B.C. Forest Safety Council says it’s unusual for a sawmill to be cited for as many safety violations as Meadow Creek Cedar. “This scenario is very limited in the industry,” Reynold Hert wrote in an email to the Star. “Most operators have safety systems in place and the industry has had a major effort to improve its safety systems over the past five years.”

An employee at Meadow Creek Cedar hurt in an industrial accident this month says the mill’s management must shoulder some responsibility for his injury. The worker, who asked not to be named, suffered a shattered leg when he was hit by a log on the morning of February 4. The incident happened in an open area on the edge of the log yard. At the time, the man and a colleague were using a loader to get ice out from the base of a conveyor.

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

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

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.

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.

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.