he Regional District of Kootenay Boundary has lowered its flags to half-mast at its Trail and Grand Forks offices in response to the 215 children whose remains were found by the Tk’emlúps te Secweìpemc at the former site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.   “The loss of any child is a terrible thing and every parent’s...

Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue (KBRFR) has added a thermal imaging camera to its fire fighting arsenal.  Retriev Technologies in Waneta donated the $7,000 camera to firefighters at the Trail Station on May 26. “We’re extremely thankful to Retriev Technologies for providing us with an indispensable tool to help us...

Katrine Conroy, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, has released the following statement regarding the deployment of BC Wildfire Service personnel to Manitoba: “British Columbia has a long history of offering a helping hand to other provinces and countries when they need assistance...

Thirty-three years ago, NASA scientist James Hansen told a U.S. congressional committee the agency was 99 per cent certain a global warming trend was not natural, but caused by a buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, mainly from burning fossil fuels.  “Global warming has reached a level such that we can ascribe with...

Kootenay Outdoor and Environmental Learning Society in Rossland is pleased with the recent announcement of awarded $14,000 by the CleanBC Plastics Action Fund, a British Columbia Provincial Government initiative. “These funds will be used primarily to purchase materials to construct machines for manufacturing products from ...

                              [To review Part One, click this link] Economy and capital The meaning of capital in economics is a subject with a vast literature and I am certainly not qualified to analyse it as well as experts in the field. So I will recommend three authors and leave it at that. Charles Eisenstein has written...

Last week, six local theatre owners met with Adrian Dix, Minister of Health in British Columbia, and Roly Russell, MLA for Boundary-Similkameen, for a discussion on easing restrictions placed on theatres in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Business owners of all kinds have faced significant challenges as we’ve navigated ...

People working in Rossland will soon have access to 37 affordable rental homes, with construction starting on a new mixed-use building in the community. The project is targeted toward individuals and couples with moderate and low incomes working in the hospitality, retail, and service industries in the city. The four-storey...

Artists and supporters of the arts will soon have a new collective space for the community to learn, connect, and create art together in Rossland. The Rossland Arts Centre Society has submitted an application to lease the historic Drill Hall building on the corner of Monte Christo Street and 1st Avenue. The application is now...

Got invasive species?  The high cost of a weekend call-out; RDKB report, with some good news for Black Jack and the Rec Site; bird feeders still up? – it’s bear season Present:  Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Dirk Lewis, Chris Bowman, Stewart Spooner, Andy Motel, Janice Nightingale, and Terry Miller....