Police got to see evidence of the other Big Bang theory in Greenwood last week, as the execution of a search warrant uncovered dynamite, a grenade and several loaded weapons. “It should also be noted that the residence had a surveillance system set up with a live camera view of the front gate/yard area onto […]

Rossland has recently been provided with an opportunity to participate in the RDKB Operational Fuel Management Program. The primary goal of the program is to reduce hazardous forest fuel loads as identified in Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP’s) adjacent to communities. The program is funded entirely through provincial...

 A Vincent van Gogh painting has gone missing from the Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo, Egypt. The painting, which was cut from its frame, goes by the name “Poppy Flowers” or “Vase with Flowers” and is valued at approximately $50 million. The work was previously believed to have been recaptured from an Italian couple at Cairo airport, but Egypt’s culture minister […]

 There are now three Facebook groups and an online petition with almost 1,000 signatures, all dedicated to saving the bears found at a Christina Lake grow-op last month. (See EXCLUSIVE: Interview with officers who raided bear-protected grow op; The Castlegar Source, August 2010).   The online petition says this: “Police involved in a Canadian drug […]

The fate of up to 15 bears who were being fed by a woman in Christina Lake, possibly as guards for a grow op, is in the hands of nature. The woman involved with the July 30 marijuana bust on her property has been feeding bears for years. Neighbours near her residence have often been […]

 Fifty-year-old Castlegar woman Robin Mackay appearing in court today facing the charge of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing her 73-year-old father repeatedly with a kitchen knife Sunday morning.  Mackay was remanded in custody until Aug. 31, and will appear via ‘video link’ at Provincial Court in Nelson.   “At (about) 12:15 a.m., Castlegar RCMP received […]

A group of officers from the RCMP Integrated Road Safety Unit say nothing surprises them anymore – except this story.  In a true Kootenay interpretation of Jurassic Park meets Jellystone Park meets NYPD Blue, officers from the RCMP and Nelson Police Department executed a search warrant on a rural property near Christina Lake, and were […]

 China's economy surpassed Japan's during the second quarter of 2010, and now is the second largest world economic power. China's economy already is larger than Japan's in the fourth quarter of most years, and many expect that the world's most populous country will soon cement its place as the world's second largest economy...

The journey from London, UK, firefighter to ownership of Rossland’s newest alternative healing enterprise, Breathing Space Health Solutions, has been inspired by Phil Loosley’s love of the things most residents adore about the Mountain Kingdom: the snow, the skiing, and the great outdoors. But there is also a little bit of ...

Since April 28 of this year, Trail has been inundated with a rash of vandalism to vehicles that involved a chemical being sprayed on them that stripped the paint. The areas hit included Glenmerry along with East and West Trail. In the early hours of August 13, a General Duty member noted a suspicious person on Topping Street […]