“Too many, reaching for a piece of cake. … Too many hungry people, losing weight.”     Paul McCartney “There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief.”     Bob Dylan “I was always working steady, but I never called it art. /  I had my shit together, reading Christ and reading Marx. … Go ask the young Messiah, what happens...

In the next few days, owners of more than 147,500 properties throughout the Kootenay Columbia region can expect to receive their 2020 assessment notices, which reflect market value as of July 1, 2019. "The majority of Kootenay Columbia home-owners can expect an increase when compared to last year’s assessments," says Deputy...

Rossland man Mark Gayowski was found, safe and sound, at about 5:00 pm on Wednesday, January 1, 2020, having survived nearly days in the bush after going astray during what had been intended as an afternoon ski. A message from Mike Hudson, of South Columbia Search and Rescue, "We are very happy to report that Mark Gayowski ...

Here's another complaint from the DriveSmartBC Inbox: "Please speak to the situation that I call the "Invisible White Lines" on our highways as soon as we get some rain and whilst driving in the dark. Night visibility in winter is terrible. There are no reflectors on the highway edge like in Washington State. And don't let ...

Highway 97C the Okanagan Connector remains closed in all directions, east of the Highway 5A Junction, as crews continue their work to assess a hazardous commercial vehicle fire. On December 31, 2019 at approximately 1 a.m., Merritt RCMP received a report of a commercial truck fire along Highway 97C east of the Highway 5A Aspen...

New Year’s resolutions are a common topic of  columnists at this time of year, and I’ve been wondering what sort of resolutions might be most helpful, to individual people or to the world as a whole. Over my lifetime I haven’t made a habit of engaging in New Year’s resolutions – always thought that if I wasn’t already doing...

In a media release Friday, Avalanche Canada is extending the Special Public Avalanche issued earlier this week and revising the regions involved. Avalanche Canada said the warning will continue through the weekend but only for the Purcells and Kananaskis Country. Avalanche Canada said forecasters remain concerned about the persistent weak layer that is now buried […]

The BC Ecosocialists are the first provincial political party to respond to the revelations published in The Guardian on Friday, alleging that the RCMP planned to deploy snipers and were prepared to use extreme tactics including child apprehension in a raid on the Indigenous land defenders who continue to oppose the gas...

Things to help us feel better are welcome during a season that can be hectic, stressful, demanding – and, for many, isolating and lonely. The demands of holiday entertaining can raise blood pressure levels and jangle nerves.  Soothing music, designed to be calming and healing, might help, and is guaranteed to cause fewer...

UPDATED INFORMATION FROM THE RCMP:  The investigators have completed a preliminary investigation and found that a westbound commercial tractor-trailer lost control and slid sideways across the three lanes striking the rear of an eastbound commercial transport vehicle and then a smaller Honda SUV before continuing over an...