A meeting with the Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship (and others) about Record Ridge;  zoning – another permitted use added to the Commercial Downtown Core;  the Recreation Master Plan – how much should the City spend to improve Jubilee Field? The current state of our reservoirs; and, the Coy Cup, maybe? And, the […]

Rossland Community Grants recommended for 2027: On Monday, August 10, all seven Council members gathered for a Committee-of-the-Whole meeting, two of them remotely, at 3:30 pm to wrestle with the problem of allocating the available funds, which were fewer than the total requested. The remaining funding available to applicants for the 2027 Rossland Community Grants, […]

By Stuart Phillips, Professor of Kinesiology, McMaster University I’ve spent more than three decades studying how exercise and diet keep us healthy. But one thing keeps showing up in the data: living longer and living well are not in sync. While we’ve partly solved the first one, we are lagging behind at the second. Over […]

By Ty Wright Every year, I am drawn back to see the Gold Fever Follies in Rossland; the yearly, summer-long production that has graced the stage of the Miners Hall for 4 decades. Heck, being a Follies alumni myself, it’s essential that I attend at least one show every season. .. and thank goodness I […]

Stay informed If you’re concerned about a nearby wildfire and evacuation, please visit the Government of BC’s Wildfire Service website. You will find the most current information and status of the wildfires on this site. To stay up to date on evacuation alerts and orders: Download the BC Wildfire Service app on your Apple or Android device Visit the wildfire map or EmergencyInfoBC […]

A discussion in a local community group recently caught my attention because it illustrated how easily unsafe driving behaviour can become normalized. A resident described a young rider leaving a community centre parking lot on an unlicensed dirt bike, travelling along a public road, performing wheelies at high speed, and then disappearing onto a logging […]

Join the Trail & District Arts Council and Trail’s Incredible Farmers Market on August 13 for an entertaining evening of food vendors, market, and live music for The Night Market, supported by Kootenay Insurance Services’. From 5 pm to 8:30 pm there’s lots to do in Gyro Park for our last event of the summer […]

Dear Editor, I am writing from indoors today because the wildfire smoke in the West Kootenays is once again at hazardous levels. Thousands across the province have been evacuated or are on alert. Hundreds of exhausted fire fighters continue to battle the flames in an attempt to save communities. Kids, adults and seniors are cloistered […]

Ravi Parmar, Minister of Forests, has issued the following statement in response to the arrival of wildfire personnel from Mexico: “Supporting our neighbours and communities, showing hospitality to our partners and taking care of each other. These are the values that make me proud to be a British Columbian. “In our time of need, I […]

Dear Editor, I want to express my concerns regarding the proposed new West Coast Pipeline. Here is my letter to the editor: We are all impacted by wildfires. Climate change isn’t tomorrow’s crisis. It’s today’s rising insurance bills, cancelled harvests, smoky skies, sweeping floods, destructive fires and deadly heat waves. It’s checking the BC Wildfire […]