The Golden City Days 2016 Committee is extremely grateful to the following sponsors and donors for their generous support and contributions: City of Rossland                                                  The GOAT Rossland Telegraph                                            Trail Daily Times Teck Trail...

Regional Fire Rescue crews responded to a call-out Sunday night at roughly 8:45 p.m. to lower Casino Road, straight across from Glenmerry. Deputy regional fire chief Dan Derby said a single vehicle with one occupant had gone over the banks, and crews arrived to assist BC Ambulance Service in extricating the driver. One woman...

The doors opened to a new era of post-secondary learning 50 years ago when Selkirk College welcomed students seeking a brighter future from across the West Kootenay and Boundary region. When the residents of six school districts — Trail, Nelson, Castlegar, Slocan, Grand Forks and Arrow Lakes — voted in a referendum on February...

Golden City Days enjoyed beautiful weather.  Happy crowds lined Columbia Avenue to watch as the parade marched in sunshine, crowds flooded into the Rossland Arena for the Fall Fair and enjoyed refreshements at the various food booths around town, music boomed from the stage set up in Sourdough Alley, and at 2:30 pm more crowds...

Apples, pears, plums!  Everyone who wants to pick fruit from trees growing on public land is invited to meet up at L'ecole des Sept-Sommets -- formerly Maclean Elementary School -- at 10:00 am on Saturday, September 17.  Groups can then spread out around town to find fruit on public land and harvest it. The "press" part of ...

Castlegar city council voted unanimously at their regular meeting last night to discuss a motion to allow chickens and beekeeping within city limits – it doesn’t mean they are allowing either, just that they will discuss the possibility at their next regular meeting Sept. 19. As many as 30 people showed up to hear the outcome...

Update:   The game at the Rossland Arena on Sunday night raised money for Dax, a baby with nueroblastoma.  Players for the two teams were chosen by lot -- names of all the volunteer players were picked from a hat to make up the "White" and "Black" teams.  And then they battled it out. The battle resulted in two injuries.  One...

Search and Rescue (SAR) teams from all over the southeast region of the province converged on the Slocan Valley for a weekend of training exercises from August 19 to 21. The SAREX (short for search and rescue exercise) was a huge success with over 65 volunteers in attendance from various teams from the southeast region of...

COPS FOR KIDS is a charitable organization that raises funds to assist children "who have suffered a medical, physical or traumatic crisis in their young lives."  One of the fundraising and awareness-raising events is a 10-day bicycle tour around south-eastern BC.   This year, the ride  starts in Kelowna on Friday, September...

Rossland City Council Regular Meeting, September 6, 2016 Present:  Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Aaron Cosbey, John Greene, Marten Kruysse, Andrew Zwicker.  Absent:  Andy Morel No one contributed any comments for Public Input Period. Recommendations from Staff for Decision: 1.         A motion that Council...