Jesse Halton News Today

 Queering the Interior, a short documentary produced by Touchstones Nelson Museum and Watershed Productions, premieres Wednesday, June 22, 7 pm at the Civic Theatre. The film, created in conjunction with the 2021 history exhibition Kootenay Pride: We Love a Parade! centres on the people and moments that defined the LGBTQ2S+ community in the Kootenays, while paying tribute to

Kootenay Lake School District is encouraging everyone in schools to wear the colour orange this week in honour of all Indigenous children who were forced into the residential school system. “Last week's news of the discovery of the mass grave of 215 children at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School is a heartbreaking confirmation that many of the Indigenous