Htoo Paw grew up in an entirely different reality than her life today on Selkirk College’s Castlegar Campus and she’s determined to ensure young women in Burma are not subjected to a similar plight. With the assistance from the Nelson Refugee Committee, Htoo Paw arrived to the Kootenays in June, 2012 from Burma—also known as...

Tourism Rossland, Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism and Whitewater Ski Resort are delighted to announce they are enhancing the Spokane Shuttle service in association with Queen City Shuttles.  For the 2014/2015 ski season the Spokane Airport Shuttle will now be running 7 days a week all winter!  The partners have been working for...

“… our Self is our operations centre, our consciousness, our moral compass.”--- Gary Wolf, founder of ‘The Quantified Self Movement’ Selfhood in the Twenty-first Century There is a high degree of consensus among writers about the past and the present that humans’ sense of self has changed markedly over time. Just today I...

A 35-year-old Alberta man currently residing in Summerland faces several charges after the Kelowna International Airport received a threat to an outgoing domestic flight on Saturday afternoon. On Oct. 25 at 12:24 pm, the Kelowna RCMP received a report of a possible threat specific to an outbound flight set to depart from...

Dear editor, Andrew Bennett has guts for submitting an opinion piece on our local government that was harsh and critical. Yes his article was unforgiving, but his article was based on factual events that happened while our current mayor was the leader of our community.   The truth may rub us the wrong way and make us...

In a seasaw battle that saw the lead change hands numerous times in the last couple hours of voting, Rossland's Red Mountain came out on tops over Eaglecrest of Alaska in round two of the Ski Town Throwdown III. The Golden City mountain trailed by as many as a 1,000 votes during the final hours of voting before staging the ...

“Who shall govern the Mountain Kingdom?” said the King, directing his words at the large pile of rocks heaped on what was once a sacred grotto adjacent to the museum. The Oracle of Delphi often visited here to escape the heat of the Grecian summer. Being something of a free spirit a few rocks didn’t bother her. The King had...

The RCMP’s investigation of the October 22, 2014, terrorist attack in Ottawa is advancing and has revealed a great deal about Zehaf-Bibeau’s movements and actions prior to the attack.  The RCMP has identified persuasive evidence that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau’s attack was driven by ideological and political motives.  Zehaf-Bibeau...

Since 2005, Eileen Delehanty Pearkes has researched and explored the natural and human history of the rivers of the upper Columbia River Basin.  She speaks frequently at conferences and symposia throughout the Basin on the history of the Columbia River Treaty and its effects on Basin residents.  She has recently completed a...

Grand Forks' Bud Alcock and Dave Bachmier stand vigil at Grand Forks' cenotaph to remember soldiers Patrice Vincent and Cpl. Nathan Cirillo who both died on Canadian soil earlier this week.  Across Canada, veterans are gathering at Cenotaphs at 10 a.m. this morning to pay tribute to the two men who lost their lives.  Alcock...