The first ever Kootenay Music Awards are set to take place Friday (March 30) at The Royal on Baker. For the past two months nominations have been submitted, short listed by a panel of five industry professionals, and voted on by the public at kootenayquickshot.com. More than 8000 votes have been cast not including the […]

Pickle Ballis taking North America by storm!  Pickle Ball is a racquet sport that uses a hard paddle and a polymer wiffle ball and combines elements of badminton, tennis and table tennis.  The sport is played on a court with the same dimensions as a doubles badminton court, but the net is mounted two inches lower and the...

This Red-based short story was submitted by Andrew Skillington, who visited the Mountain Kingdom for a ski vacation this winter. It was a powder day at Red Mountain Ski Area. Thirty centimetres of the freshest, driest Kootenay powder snow had fallen overnight and the sky was just beginning to clear. Jim stood at the top of ...

Registrations are currently being accepted for artists/venues in the Columbia Basin to participate in the Columbia Basin Culture Tour (CBCT). The CBCT is a two day celebration of culture taking place August 11-12, 2012 from 10 am to 5 pm. The CBCT is a self guided tour showcasing local arts, culture and heritage offered at […]

Local country singer Amanda Thate needs your vote by Friday, March 30 to be the opening act in the Merrit Mountain Music Festival this summer. Thate, a Grand Forks graduate of 2011 who is now earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in social work at University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, has a noteworthy […]

The Rossland Arena ice surface is on its way out for the spring season.  Stay tuned for ROLLER DERBY information and bout schedules! Snow quality and conditions are deteriorating on the Centennial Trail.  In an effort to preserve our grooming equipment, the Centennial Trail will no longer be groomed this season.  A big thank...

Lone Sheep Publishing is proud to present Yves Engler, author of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy and Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid. In his new book, The Truth May Hurt, Engler strips away the layers of former Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson’s past, exposing him as less of a Canadian peacekeeper and ...

As the Rossland Museum seeks to renew its momentum after the closure of the Black Bear mining adit, formerly the museum's main attraction, Mayor Greg Granstrom recently wrote to Chris Edgell of the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame (CSHF) in Ottawa to offer "a serious expression of interest by the City of Rossland to provide a new ...

A former Catholic nun who first gained the spotlight with her 1993 book A History of God: The 4,000-year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam,  Karen Armstrong is now an author of 20 books that focus largely on commonalities of major religions – including the nearly universally but often-ignored principle of compassion....

Everyone’s favourite book club is back. One Book, One Kootenay (OBOK) is a region-wide book club that celebrates the work of the talented writers living in the Kootenay Boundary. Once again, readers from across the Kootenay region will read and vote for the book they feel all Kootenay booklovers should read. Three Kootenay ...