CL resident puts name forward to replace Atamanenko
Christina Lake’s Margaret Maximenko is putting her name forward as a New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate to replace Alex Atamanenko in the next federal election. Atamanenko announced last week that after three terms he will no longer be running for Member of Parliament (MP) in the next election, which is expected to be in ...
SD 51 to get new buses
School District 51 is getting three new buses to serve the Boundary next year. The provincial government has set aside $416,974 to fund the three news buses, which will seat at least 80 people. The buses will replace three older models. Two have been in use for 15 years and the other one is 12-years-old. The government has ...
Teck Trail Operations pH Level Permit Exceedance Penalty Supports Habitat Conservation
Teck Trail Operations has been assessed a penalty of $210,000 under the Fisheries Act and the Environmental Management Act. $200,000 of the penalty will be split evenly between the provincial Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation and the federal Environmental Damages Fund. The funds will be used to support habitat conservation...
Teck penalized over $200,000 for exceeding pH; money to go to conservation
Teck Trail Operations has been assessed a penalty of $210,000 under the Fisheries Act and the Environmental Management Act. $200,000 of the penalty will be split evenly between the provincial Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation and the federal Environmental Damages Fund. The funds will be used to support habitat conservation...
Bring Fracking Directly to the Premier As She Travels to Champion B.C.'s Gas Industry
On Sunday morning, activists with Rising Tide-Vancouver Coast Salish Territories set up a 15-foot mock fracking rig on Premier Christy Clark's lawn and announcing that "Because the Premier loves fracking, we figured we would save her the hassle of trying to take over other peoples' homes and bring it right to her!" says...
GALLERY: Winter's coming but the Rossland Museum keeps ticking along...
The Rossland HIstorical Museum may be closed for the season, but that doesn't mean that there hasn't been things happening there. Recently, the Museum partnered with the Rossland Heritage Commission to present the third and final instalment of our historical lecture series, "War, Murder and Graves: Stories and Legends of...
Fourth driest October on record for West Kootenay
The West Kootenay experienced the fourth driest October on record said Ron Lakeman, Weather Forecaster
for the Southeast Fire Centre. “This was one of the driest Octobers — fourth driest on record,” Lakeman said. “The monthly total amount of precipitation (all rain) was only 7.4 millimetres. Other notably dry Octobers were...
Car fire this morning 'suspicious'
Police and the fire department are teaming up to investigate a fire that destroyed a vehicle this morning, according to fire chief Gerry Rempel. "The Castlegar Fire Department was dispatched to a garage fire in the 2100 block of Columbia Avenue shortly before 6:30 a.m. today (Nov. 2)," Rempel said. "A vehicle was fully involved...
Driver's concentration, alertness and reaction time decrease with end of daylight savings time
The end of daylight savings time occurs Sunday morning at 2 a.m. Accidents happen for the next two weeks according to statistics released by ICBC. The Insurance Corporation of BC says 16 per cent increase in the average number of crashes in B.C. during the late afternoon commute in the two weeks following the end of Daylight...
Trail to get big $ assist from province and ICBC
The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MoTI) and the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) have both contributed financially to the City of Trail’s Victoria Street Revitalization Project. The ministry has provided $125,000 in funding with ICBC contributing $28,400 towards the city’s key revitalization...
