Note that since this story was submitted, the problem has been solved. According to an email from Kathy Moore, "when I sent my press release out about the West Kootenay Friends of Refugees needing a house for the Burmese family I was worried and daunted by the task of finding a rental in Rossland heading into ski season....

What would Rossland’s longest running history column be without a piece on the most famous Rosslander ever? It would surely be much more desirable than this week’s plan B of mine, which was a history of Rossland’s longest running history column. That would be exciting - not. So I decided to provide my readers young and old,...

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 ...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...