A little girl is home safe after a being rescued from a traumatizing incident last week by Kootenay Regional Fire Rescue last Thursday. Fire Chief Dan Derby said KBRFR was called to Beaver Bend Park at 2:32 p.m. to help a child trapped under logs. “Upon arriving on scene (at 2:36 p.m.) we found a child who had been trapped ...

A cooking fire gone awry brought 19 firefighters to a Cedar Avenue home Sunday, according to Acting Captain Lee De Pellegrin of Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue. He said the call came in at 1:14 p.m. and crews arrived 1667 Cedar Avenue at 1:18 p.m., with the situation controlled at 1:40 p.m. “(The) initial three-member...

A new report by BC Hydro finds when it comes to heating the home, British Columbian couples are at odds – with four in 10 admitting to arguing over the temperature. The report titled Thermostat wars: How the battle over household temperature is turning up the heat on relationships found that while arguments about the temperature...

First, let’s straighten out that “world of politics” reference; politicians do not, and should not feel entitled to, occupy some separate sphere from the rest of us on this planet. But in some ways, they seem to: politicians seem to have some special license, à la James bond, to kill – to kill truth with words. The advertising...

Columbia Basin Trust is announcing changes to its Board of Directors. Rick Jensen has been reappointed to the role of Chair while Jocelyn Carver, who joined the Board in 2018, has been appointed Vice-Chair. “I am so pleased to be able to continue in the role of Chair and to work with Jocelyn in her new role in what promises...

Weather and climate aren’t the same. It’s one thing for people who spend little or no time learning about global warming to confuse the two, but when those we elect to represent us don’t know the difference, we’re in trouble. For a U.S. president to tweet about what he referred to as “Global Waming” because parts of the country...

By Stuart Parker In 2001, I decided to give progressive politics a try and for the next seventeen years, I subscribed to a utilitarian political project. By that, I mean that I stood behind organizations, electoral and non-electoral, that made sense in what is called the “hedonic calculus.” Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill,...

Present:  Mayor kathy Moore, and Councillors Chris Bowman, Scott Forsyth, Stewart Spooner, Andy Morel, and Janice Nightingale.  Absent: Dirk Lewis. Public Input Period was very quiet -- no one offered to speak. Staff Reports & Recommendations: (moved up in the agenda to accommodate interested people in the gallery) A...

Internal documents released via Freedom of Information laws show that, while the B.C. government was publicly apologizing to the Fort Nelson First Nation for exempting natural gas plants from environmental assessments without consultation, the province quietly used a loophole to allow the exemptions to continue — a...

After seven days, Merritt RCMP and Search and Rescue have suspended the search for missing rancher Ben Tyner.  The search is suspended at this time due to extensive coverage in the area where the horse was found on Jan. 28, as well as extreme cold and poor weather conditions. The large scale search included more than 19 teams...