The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League will welcome the River Rush into the fold, as the Leagues approved the relocation of the North Okanagan Knights to Quesnel. The team, now known as the River Rush, is the second relocation approved by the league in the past two weeks with the Summerland...

The West Kootenay Regional Airport has received an additional $1.6 million for upgrades to the facility's aviation apron through BC's Air Access Program.  Last January, the airport secured $2.35 million to expand the facility through Transport Canada’s Airport Capital Assistance Program. However, airport manager Maciej Habrych told Castlegar City Council on...

Local RCMP detachments in the Kootenays are warning community members of a rise in text, phone, and email scams after receiving multiple reports of residents being scammed out of significant amounts of money. On Mar. 20, a Trail woman was scammed out of $1,900 by someone claiming to be her...

The Province is taking action to support renters and landlords who play by the rules by amending legislation to better protect people from bad-faith evictions, eliminate rent increases when a child is added to a household and resolve rental disputes faster. “While most landlords and tenants play by the rules and...

Effective Monday, April 1, 2024, families looking for licensed child care can no longer be charged a fee to put their names on waitlists, removing a barrier to finding high-quality child care. “Child care is expensive enough without fees adding up before families have secured child care,” said Mitzi Dean, Minister...

RCMP officials say a search warrant of a rural property in Beaverdell led to the discovery of a clandestine laboratory; used for the production of a chemically concentrated cannabis extract commonly referred to as shatter. A press release from Midway RCMP stated that police have been investigating the possible laboratory...