Four students awarded 2025 Neil Muth Memorial Scholarships
Each year, the Neil Muth Memorial Scholarship recognizes Columbia Basin students who have overcome adversity to pursue their educational and career goals. This year, Gorvansh Kapoor of Trail, Alysha Jones and Alexis Robillard of Castlegar, and Caleb Speedie of Salmo will each receive $2,500 to support their post-secondary studies or training as they take their next step […]
Trail RCMP respond to report of a gun inside a vehicle at high school
On Thursday, June 12, 2025, at 1:31 p.m. frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officers responded to a report of an alleged firearm seen inside a vehicle parked in the parking lot of the JL Crowe High School located at 1300 Frances Moran Road in Trail, according to RCMP Sgt. Mike Wicentowich. He said officers […]
Changes to downtown Trail Health Centre Laboratory
Trail and area residents are advised that the Trail Health Centre Laboratory, located on the third floor of the downtown medical building at 1101 Dewdney Avenue, will be closed as of July 28, 2025.Outpatient laboratory services, including specimen collection, are available at the LifeLabs Trail Patient Services Centre (PSC), located on the second floor at Waneta Plaza. Interior Health will […]
DriveSmartBC: Pickups Rolling Coal
A few times every summer I’m riding my motorcycle and come up to a set of traffic lights and have to stop. I find myself behind a diesel pickup as we both wait for the light to turn green. When it does, the driver hits the throttle and I become another victim of “rolling coal”. […]
Wildfire smoke can harm your brain, not just your lungs
By Bhavini Gohel and Muskaan Muse Laroyia Wildfires are already burning in parts of Canada, and as they do, many communities are already facing the familiar thick haze as smoke drifts in. Smoke from wildfires has already led Environment Canada to issue air quality warnings for much of Ontario. In Toronto, smoke led to the […]
Composting in Bear Country
Composting is possible in bear country. Bears can smell scents from over a mile away, so the key is to ensure the compost bin is maintained properly to avoid odours that might attract bears. Bears don’t like ‘finished’ compost. They are drawn to composters that are not maintained and thus have lots of whole, un-composted […]
WKFoR welcomes a New Syrian Family
On May 30th West Kootenay Friends of Refugees welcomed a new family to Rossland: Maya and her children; Taim and Leen (grades 1 & 3) have arrived. Originally from Syria, the family fled to Iraq before applying through the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to immigrate to Canada. The West Kootenay Friends of […]
Column: Idiots and our future
A climate-safe future demands the defeat of ignorance It’s hard not to conclude that much of the world has been taken over by idiots. Sure, there have always been uninformed politicians and those who let their ideology stumble ahead of their wits. And some who seem more sociopathic than stupid, waging brutal wars and massacres […]
Letter: About taxes -- a Council member responds to the RTA delegation
An Open Letter to the Rossland Taxpayers Association Last night, Council had the opportunity to hear from the newly formed Rossland Taxpayers Association. Due to time constraints and the formal nature of council meetings, I didn’t feel I was able to engage with the presentation as meaningfully as I would have liked. For that reason, […]
Calling all kids: Create a Canadian Superhero
Scouts Canada (the country’s leading co-ed youth organization) is nurturing the nation’s need for a new Canadian Superhero NOW! Canadians are embracing ‘elbows up’ and need a homegrown superhero now more than ever. a) Calling on our kids to get creative: Scouts is launching a nationwide contest for kids between the ages of 5-15 to create […]
