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Meadow Creek Cedar has been effectively shut down after WorkSafeBC ordered the mill to stop using all machinery requiring safe guarding. It follows an accident last Friday in which a worker lost parts of three fingers.

Two Nelson companies are included in WorkSafeBC’s enforcement report for 2010.

Sixth in a series of West Kootenay-related lists

Fraser Ploss (with megaphone) of the Selkirk College students’ union led a rally Wednesday afternoon in Nelson as part of the national No Means No campaign, aimed at creating awareness of an individual’s right to politely decline unwanted advances in the workplace, bar, or classroom.

The man who lit the Olympic cauldron in Nelson and organized a celebration of the Civic Centre’s 75th birthday has been named citizen of the year.

Nelson’s sewer service is staying in city limits.

A plan to bring disc golf to Nelson has hit a snag.

Members of the Nelson Police Department were bitten, hit with shoes, and nearly head-butted in two separate incidents this week.

Protesters on the road to Perry Ridge stepped aside Wednesday morning after RCMP arrived to enforce a court injunction obtained by a local logging company.

Kootenay Savings Credit Union has reached a settlement with its unionized employees.