First you shut down an industry then you build it back up with subsidies. Sound like Pierre Trudeau? Think again. This is Conservative MP Dan Albas we’re talking about. Albas is taking the credit for a whopping $240,000 handout from the federal government to a community group who’re setting up a mobile abattoir in the Grand Forks area. […]

Earth Day is a day set aside each year on which events are held worldwide to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earth’s natural environment. The West Kootenay Coalition for Jumbo Wild wants to focus on the “natural environment” when the coalition joins with the rest of the Kootenays for a Pipeline-Free BC during the […]

A skier from Sweden who was thought to have been missing in the Ripple Ridge area, near the top of Salmo-Creston Summit has been located said Salmo and Nelson Rural RCMP in a release Friday. Bjorn Soderlund, who is staying in Nelson, is believed to be camping in the Golden/Revelstoke area and is to have […]

“Our airport is better.” “No, OUR airport is better.” “You’re not closing OUR school.” “Well, you’re sure not closing OURS. So there.” Every time I try to imagine how dialogue between Castlegar and Trail must sound to ministry officials at both the provincial and federal levels, I can almost hear the banjos playing in the […]

Dear Editor, I’ve just been reading your story “Only YOU can prevent cancer now” and can support wholeheartedly the mission of the PCN (Prevent Cancer Now) campaigners. What I find ironical though, and even hypocritical in some instances, is that we often read about campaigns about carcinogens from BPA, tanning beds, nuclear power, coal fired […]

A 17-year-old Trail-area male pled guilty to 10 of 47 charges resulting from a months-long investigation involving local children being lured via the Internet, according to Trail RCMP Sgt. Rob Hawton. The plea came last week, with a sentencing date to be set May 16th, but Hawton said there’s still a chance more victims will […]

A Trial resident, 83-year-old Elisa Sidoni, was struck and killed by a recycling collection truck on Woodland Avenue in Trail last Thursday. “On  April 5, at shortly after 9 a.m., police, fire and ambulance attended to a motor vehicle incident on Woodland Avenue, where an elderly woman was struck by a recycling collection truck,” said RCMP […]

Rossland’s own Sophie DeRosa has earned a top spot among Canada’s young literati for her poem, “A Day to Remember Our Soldiers,” that she submitted to the annual literary and poster contest sponsored by the Royal Canadian Legion. Poppy chairperson Bobbi Lafond of Rossland’s Legion Branch No. 14 was “jumping for joy” at the ...

Globalization is often touted as the solve it all solution of the problems this world faces today. However there are several very highly toxic effects of globalization as well. For instance these seemingly dissipating borders means that the western world has been and even now is engaged in dumping its plastic and medical waste...

IntegrityBC congratulates NDP leader Adrian Dix for renewing the BC NDP's call for a ban on corporate and union donations to political parties in the province. Dix is honouring the pledge that the NDP made in its 2009 platform. Dix made the call during a media scrum last Wednesday while responding to questions over the annual...