Air Canada shoots down Kootenay MP's idea to improve reliability at West Kootenay Regional Airport in Castlegar
High expectations quickly turned to harsh reality for BC Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko and Kootenay/Columbia rep David Wilks following a meeting Wednesday with Air Canada officials. The two Kootenay MPs met with Air Canada VP Government Affairs, Industry and Corporate Strategy Derek Vanstone to discuss the future of ...
PODCAST: How to save the world and make money with Rossland's Darrel Fry
About the podcast: The You Can Do That Here! podcast is produced by Andrew Zwicker of AZcreative for the Kootenay Association for Science and Technology. The podcast is a weekly series of 30 minute conversations with some of the most innovative and successful entrepreneurs in the Kootenays. You can CLICK PLAY on the triangle...
Forest fire crews rescue baby owl named Norman
On Tuesday, May 26 the Sentinal Unit Crew from the Southeast Fire Centre discovered this baby owl on the Little Bobtail Lake fire. He had fallen from his nest and was too young to fly. He was rescued by a Wildfire Management Branch Falling Coordinator based out of the Cobble Hill Zone in the Coastal Fire Centre. A wildlife ...
Apocalypses and Terminations
“Who killed the world?” -- graphitto in the film, “Mad Max IV” By Charles Jeanes End Times and Revealed Truths It’s pretty obvious why novels and films set in a post-apocalyptic future on earth are popular. We live today with a sense of dread, or at least anxiety. Our planet seems precarious. Climate change is denied by no...
GF council votes to have Coun. Butler disqualified
Grand Forks city councillors voted in Monday night's council meeting to file a declaration of disqualification for Coun. Julia Butler. They sent out the following press release this morning: Grand Forks, BC city council voted in favour of filing an application to the court for declaration of disqualification against Councillor...
Human-caused wildfires are preventable say Southeast Fire Centre
Humans are making it a very difficult start to the 2015 wildfire season says the Southeast Fire Centre in a media release. "Since April 1, 2015, the Wildfire Management Branch has responded to 39 wildfires in the Southeast Fire Centre," said the release. "Of those fires, 34 were human-caused and therefore preventable." The ...
Citizen’s prosecution proceeds in Lemon Creek Spill
There is another delay in a Slocan valley woman’s prosecution of the province of BC and the Executive Flight Centre over the jet fuel spill into Lemon Creek nearly two years ago. Provincial Court Judge Richard Hewson set June 16 for the parties to fix a date for a trial in April 2016, in Nelson provincial court Monday. “Well,...
Trail/Castlegar/Nelson air cadets fly at Trail airport
On the weekend of May 23/24, the cadets of the three West Kootenay Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadrons flew in the Air Cadet Gliders at the Trail Regional Airport. The Cadets were from 531 Squadron in Trail, 561 Squadron in Nelson and 581 Squadron in Castlegar. The two SGS2-33A gliders and one Cessna 182 tow plane are owned ...
Three men badly injured after Courtenay drug op explodes
Police are confident that the cause of a house explosion and fire on May 22 in Courtenay is criminal in nature. Police conducted a search of the residence, after obtaining a search warrant under the Controlled Drug and Substances Act, on May 23and located equipment and other evidence that is used in the production of hash ...
Spree of taxi cab robberies prompts police to ask for help
Five robberies of cab drivers have police asking for public help in catching the suspects, according to a press release issued today by RCMP Sgt. Dale Carr. Surrey RCMP’s Robbery Unit is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying suspects involved in a series of taxi cab robberies that occurred this past month. Since...
