The City of Grand Forks, participated as one of three municipalities out of 26 in a pilot ‘Community Engagement’ project sponsored by the Association of Kootenay and Boundary Local Governments (AKBLG) on March 12 at the Omega Restaurant. Seventy-five local citizens registered to join in a lively discussion facilitated by...

A meeting in Castlegar Monday saw Interfor workers vote overwhelmingly in favour of a new five-year deal, according to a press release issued this morning: Following four days of bargaining in late February with INTERFOR for members at the Castlegar and Grand Forks Sawmills, USW Local 1-405 and 1-423 announced today that the...

The already-contentious City of Trail Recreation program has sustained another blow, as Warfield has now followed Beaver Valley's lead and opted out of the Trail Resident Program (TRP) rate structure. In a release issued this morning, Trail mayor Dieter Bogs expressed distress over Warfield's decision, arguing it may force ...

BC’s former Minister of Agriculture and Food Corky Evans spent over an hour on March 12 sharing the reasons British Columbians should fight to save Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) to a full house of concerned citizens at Selkirk College. He was invited by Grand Forks & Boundary Regional Agricultural Society (ag society)...

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a male who died following an industrial accident at the Teck Coal Mountain mine near Sparwood on March 16. He was Miles Bradley Lorenz, aged 59, of Coleman. Lorenz was a water truck driver and was filling his truck with water when he was impacted by […]

It'll be a Seedy Sunday in Rossland!  -- March 23 at the Miners Union Hall, starting at 1pm. You may think it's early to think about gardening, with dirty snow still covering the ground, sleet falling, and robins looking bedraggled.  But keen gardeners have already started growing some seedlings inside -- onions & petunias...

The BC Government announced last week a decision to continue the Columbia River Treaty and seek improvements within its existing framework. Bill Bennett, Minister of Energy and Mines and Minister Responsible for Core Review made the announcement on behalf of the government. “We believe continuing the Columbia River Treaty while exploring how improvements could benefit […]

A local man is up for an award for service to the community, but he needs your help to win! The following is the nomination story sent in by a local volunteer organization: "Castlegar Parks and Trails and Castlegar Mountain Bike Society would like to nominate our master craftsman and unbelievably dedicated trail visionary...

Dear Editor: Last night I attended an information meeting about the changes coming to Canada Post. I was very disappointed that only 31 people attended the meeting - six of those were the guest presenters - probably 10 members of the public and the rest were postal employees. Did you know that in December 2013 Canada Post...

The Grand Forks kitchen scraps compost curbside collection program will soon expand to include nearby rural residents and become the first rural area in British Columbia to receive this type of waste collection service. On Feb. 27, the Board of Directors of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary gave approval to the concept...