Police and other provincial enforcement officers are being given the ability to issue $2,000 violation tickets for owners or organizers contravening the provincial health officer’s (PHO) order on gatherings and events. They will also be able to issue $200 violation tickets to individuals not following the direction of police...

Penticton – On Aug.8, two RCMP Reserve Constables, were working as part of the RCMP Southeast District boat patrol on Skaha Lake checking water vessels for safety equipment and proper licensing when they encountered a boater in distress. During the mid-afternoon patrol, the winds picked up and the water on the lake became...

A couple of mountain bikers on the Seven Summits trail made it nearly to the end of their ride, but had suffered four flat tires and needed help getting back to their vehicle.  RCMP received the call at 8:23 pm on August 15, and found a pair of exhausted but otherwise uninjured bikers with their injured bikes, and transported...

As a result of a BC Ombudsperson investigation, the Ministry of Education will apologize to students and compensate any students who were financially harmed by the issuance of incorrect provincial exam results in 2019. In a report released today, Course Correction: The Ministry of Education 2019 Provincial Exam Errors, the ...

The City of Rossland has received a copy of the response to the request for a referendum on the proposed affordable housing/city hall project in development for the old EMCON lot on 3rd Ave. The request, along with the petition, was sent to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing by a Facebook group called the Rossland...

By Stephanie Wood, for The Narwhal Even a low-ball prediction for the number of sockeye returning to B.C. river was too high and First Nations and conservationists say government mismanagement and lice infestations are partly to blame Scientists at the Pacific Salmon Commission knew 2020 wouldn’t be a great year for...

First Responders from Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue stations in Rossland and Trail received a call for help at 11:20 on Wednesday, August 19, 2020, and were able to reach an injured man in the Red Mountain area by 11:41.  Crews worked together to extract a man with a possible broken hip – resulting from a mountain ...

The remains of the missing Edmonton man, who was swept away on July 30, 2020 while attempting to rescue his family’s dog, was pulled from the Kootenay River Tuesday. On Aug. 18, just before 12 p.m., front line RCMP officers from Kimberley and Cranbrook were called to a section of the Kootenay River, approximately six km south...

Columbia Basin Trust is a unique and amazing organization, with huge benefits to residents of the Columbia Basin.  As most people know, it was set up in 1995 with a lump-sum settlement to help compensate the region for damage and losses caused by construction of dams under the Columbia River Treaty, which was signed in 1964,...

Correction: the wrong link was originally provided for the book report in The Tyee.  That has been corrected. Many local gardeners have commented that gardening has been strange this year. We had a long, cold, wettish spring and early summer – but that’s not so very unusual, is it? It surely saved on sprinkling, until summer...