High winds, whitecaps and cold temperatures create crazy tangle of serrated ice in Taynton Bay
By Steve Hubrecht steve@columbiavalleypioneer.com For much of last week Mother Nature transformed...
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Ski resorts prepare for opening day
By Steve Hubrecht steve@columbiavalleypioneer.com The Columbia Valley’s ski resort are readying...
Friends of Invermere Library needs your help
By Camille Aubin camille@columbiavalleypioneer.com The classic Christmas Silent Auction will be...
New Year’s Eve celebrations cancelled in RHS
By Camille Aubin camille@columbiavalleypioneer.com The bad news in 2020 keeps coming. Despite...
Halloween hike held at Lake Lillian
By Steve Hubrecht steve@columbiavalleypioneer.com Holding Halloween during a pandemic comes with...
Panorama Mountain Resort adapts to brave new pandemic world
By James Rose james@columbiavalleypioneer.com Panorama’s opening day is Dec. 11. Closing day, Apr....
Young Kootenay man seeks to inspire through podcast
Will Watt has a lot of wisdom for a 19 year old. Mostly, he knows he still has a lot to learn. He...
Nelson author launches book on Canadian environmental heroes
When the renowned B.C. naturalist and wolf biologist John Theberge was eight years old, he started...
Netflix Canada increases prices for its monthly standard, premium plans
Netflix Canada is increasing some of its prices again. The streaming giant says the basic plan for...
Guitarist Eddie Van Halen dead at age 65 after long battle with cancer
Famous rocker Eddie Van Halen has died of cancer at the age of 65, according his son Wolf Van...
Q&A with VIFF’s B.C. Emerging Filmmaker Award winner, Jessie Anthony
Jessie Anthony wrote, directed and produced Brother, I Cry, which had its world premier at this...
‘Saturday Night Live’ recreates debate in 46th season opener
“Saturday Night Live” went political with a parody of this week’s presidential...
Metis pilot Teara Fraser profiled in new DC Comics graphic novel of women heroes
Not all heroes wear capes, as the saying goes, but Teara Fraser does have her wings and likes to...
Reincarnation, baby! Music-making B.C. couple celebrate ‘miracle’ pregnancy
Do you believe in reincarnation? Elise Estrada and Adam Hurstfield sure do, after what happened to...
‘Magic Wheelchair’ book tells story of thrilled author’s B.C. granddaughters
Charlottetown-based author Marlene Bryenton said she’s thrilled to write storybooks about...
Neon Dreams and Chantal Kreviazuk test waters of multi-province concert tours
Pop duo Neon Dreams and singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk are among the Canadian musicians who...
B.C.-born Trybe social media app’s award system connects with Nickelback singer
Dan Swinimer helped gather a tribe to launch a new app he hopes will disrupt the world of social...
‘Monkey Beach’ supernatural film adaptation premiers at VIFF
“If you are powerful enough for the journey, you must be powerful enough to return,”...
Transgender B.C. brothers debut fantasy novel as author duo Vincent Hunter
Transgender brothers raised in Surrey have co-authored a debut fantasy novel that aims to...
PHOTOS: Gallery explores ‘broken promises’ during Japanese Canadian internment in 1940s
The University of Victoria will soon be sharing the untold stories of more than 22,000 Japanese...
