Current Affairs &
Local News
Tune in to Kootenay Morning Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 8am for local news, current affairs, and culture.
Kootenay Morning with Mark Maarhuis
Mark Maarhuis joins us today. He started as a dishwasher and ended up as a legendary lead guide at one of the world's most famous cat skiing lodges — Nelson's own Baldface Lodge. He is a long-time supporter of community radio and a music aficionado with a collection of over 10,000 CDs, albums, cassettes and even 8-tracks.
Kootenay Morning with Mat DeVito
DeVito Shoes, a family-owned Kootenay business founded in Trail by Vincenzo DeVito, is celebrating a century of cobbler craftsmanship this year. Vincenzo’s grandson Vince DeVito and his wife Shelley…
Kootenay Morning with Reece Hunt
Nelson’s Reece Hunt reflects on a great career in college and professional women’s hockey…and the day Prime Minister Mark Carney made a surprise visit to practice with her team, the Ottawa……
Kootenay Morning with Jamie Frederick
For the fourth time in the last five years, Kootenay Co-op Radio is being supported by the nation-wide Local Journalism Initiative. This year, we’ve hired not one but two reporters — Heather Austin…
Kootenay Morning with Kallee Lins
Columbia-Kootenay-Southern Rockies Kallee Lins took part in the federal New Democrats leadership convention, and joins us for a conversation about new leader Avi Lewis and the loss of his father, NDP…
Kootenay Morning with Whitewater Ski Resort’s 50th Anniversary
On the final Friday of the 2025/26 season, Whitewater marked its 50th anniversary with speeches from local residents and legends. A few hundred people attended the event, and today's entire program…
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Kootenay Morning is hosted by passionate (and entertaining) volunteers with three segments/interviews per hour.
Kootenay Morning has become a hub for local businesses and organizations to stop by and share their news and announcements and is a show loved and celebrated by our listeners.
For example, the news show offers on-going coverage of the Nelson Leafs championship playoff run…and regular updates from Kootenay Morning’s cast of correspondents including cannabis pro Velvet Kavanaugh, conservative pundit Stephen Harris and his Beyond Bumper Stickers commentary, and many of the region’s top reporters with in-depth news from throughout the West Kootenay. Tune in to Kootenay Co-op Radio for all your local news from all over. From the heart of Nelson, to the ends of Kootenay Lake or New Denver, CJLY will cover it all!