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RCMP say a 75-year-old Idaho man died Wednesday after falling down a steep embankment along Highway 3A at Akokli Creek while geocaching.

Large crowds converge... tour plant

Property owners in the Slocan Valley will be polled by mail on a dog control bylaw.

The Regional District of Central Kootenay says it could not have notified Pacific Insight any sooner about plans to move the Nelson transfer station next to the company’s headquarters.

Rescue members from around the province and Pacific Northwest descended on Nelson Saturday to honour Sheilah Sweatman.

A group of tree planters have not yet been paid a full year after they were found living in squalid conditions in a forestry camp near Golden, B.C. This comes despite the fact that they've won labour decisions ordering they be paid.

Elections BC is keeping its call centre open until midnight Friday, the deadline for B.C. residents to register and request a voting package for the harmonized sales tax referendum.

Government communications have traditionally been built around a stream of propaganda, with the emphasis on pictures and text arranged to show the ruling politicians of the day in a flattering light.

The word on the grapevine is that would-be vintners will soon have valuable information at their fingertips in the Arrow Lakes region, thanks to an Arrow Lakes Grape Growers Society climate study taking root in the Nakusp area.

Breaching contract would be wrong, expensive: Lekstrom