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This year, the Union of B.C. Municipalities met in Vancouver from Sept. 25th to 30th. From Nakusp, councillors Leitch, Mueller, our CAO and I attended. We had several meetings scheduled with various ministries, making our schedule very busy, probably one of the busiest UBCM’s I have attended.

VPD, RCMP had many chances to stop serial killer preying on Downtown Eastside women

Pat Bell's latest assignment is simple. As Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation, all he has to do is take B.C.'s success in reaching out to Asia for forest products, extend it to the rest of the economy, and make Premier Christy Clark's jobs plan work.

The B.C. government has presented legislation to restrict mining and oil and gas development in the Flathead watershed in southeastern B.C., formalizing an agreement reached with Montana in 2010.

Attorney General Shirley Bond has introduced changes to B.C. law that present new options for street disorder, unsafe driving and other provincial offences.

Even though Trout Lake had a short summer, it was hardly uneventful. While vacationers, beachgoers and backcountry riders indulged in their annual fix, here’s what else went on in our neighbourhood.

At first the long string of trucks coming down the highway looks like a parade of fire fighters; most trucks are emblazoned with a regional emblem declaring which region they are representing. These aren’t the pump trucks trundling down the road on a grey first Saturday in October, though. The crested convoy carry the fire chiefs from all of the Kootenays who are about to converge on the Nakusp fire fighters’ training ground near Brouse Loop.

The replacement for B.C.'s CareCard will provide online access to medical records, and may also be used to confirm B.C. residence and age while keeping other information private.

Nakusp RCMP have now released the names of two men critically injured in a pickup truck rollover north of Nakusp on Saturday night or Sunday morning. Cst. Mark Macaulay identified the men as Daryl Travis Thomson, 25, of Revelstoke, B.C. and Philip George Walker, 37, or Trail, B.C.

Attorney General Shirley Bond has ordered Crown prosecutors to ask judges to allow TV and radio coverage of court proceedings for those accused of participating in the Stanley Cup riot in June. But even if it happens, it will be highly restricted.