Twenty-five people have died of toxic drug poisonings in the West Kootenay so far this year. The Nelson local health area, ...

A Royal Canadian Geographical Society-supported expedition has added to the inventory of known caves in a little-explored region It all started with a simple question: is there unexplored karst in the ...

The BC SPCA says it has seized 40 dogs from a West Kootenay sled-dog operation. According to the animal rescue society, the dogs were seized on Feb. 16 after animal protection officers executed a ...

NEW DENVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Mounties in British Columbia's West Kootenay region say four people are dead after a crash that closed a stretch of Highway 6 for 11 hours. Slocan Lake RCMP say it ...

Twenty-six wildfires are currently burning in B.C.’s Okanagan, Shuswap, Revelstoke, Similkameen and West Kootenay regions. Most of the wildfires are considered new, having been discovered either on ...

To get up the steep mountain slopes in the backcountry near New Denver, B.C., skiers and snowboarders spend strenuous hours using special gear to ski upwards toward the reward of one untouched run ...

Rainbow Resources Inc. (RBW.V) continues to identify highly prospective areas elsewhere throughout its 13,000-hectare land package (100% owned) in the West Kootenay region of southeast British ...

With miles of backcountry trails and a fraction of the people, southeastern BC is a mountain biker’s dream. We explore the untapped Kootenay Region. When most people think about outdoor recreation in ...

The bodies of two missing West Kootenay, B.C., teen siblings have been found by an RCMP dive team. The Fruitvale brother and sister, aged 15 and 18, were riding in the back passenger seats of a ...

A RCMP dive team is searching a West Kootenay river for the bodies of two teenagers who are believed to have drowned on the weekend. The missing pair, a 15-year-old and an 18-year-old, both from ...