It’s been an odd year for The Source, in that this is the first, of our almost three years online, that no story has stood out as the real attention-getter of the 12 months past. Our first year of operation saw a conflict between Castlegar and Celgar, sparking four of the top 10 stories for […]

 I have made and broken dozens of New Year’s resolutions before swearing off them altogether – resolving not to resolve, if you will. Now, I can’t live without them – because I’m no longer an idiot about how and why I make them. For the longest time, I followed popular culture and made resolutions governing […]

The year in review is a long-standing tradition of news media to take a look back on the events of the year that stood out. From our long list of stories published in 2011 come these top stories based on what you, the readers, thought were most important by the number of times the stories […]

As we look back over the year in news for 2011, the region experienced many changes from devastating fires to growth and development. Two elections – national and local government – took place, crime in the world of social media impacted us locally, and long standing traditions were dealt devastating blows.  From our news world […]

A skier at the Revelstoke Mountain Resort experienced a near miss after triggering an avalanche during a run Thursday afternoon at the B.C. Interior ski facility. Approximately 12:50 pm, the Revelstoke RCMP responded to a report of an avalanche being triggered by a skier in the “Thumbs Up” Greely Bowl area of Mt Mackenzie north […]

An early-morning sliding venture at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort near Golden turned tragic for a 27-year-old Calgary man. During the early hours of Boxing Day, a group of individuals hiked up a kilometer from the bottom of the ski hill. The man slid down a run near tower five of the Catamount chair lift, on […]

Now that Santa has come and gone, it’s time for Nelsonites to focus on the next big event — and no, it’s not New Year’s Eve. Push ahead one more day to New Year’s Day and the annual Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation Polar Bear Dip into Kootenay Lake. The Foundation welcomes all of Nelson’s swimmers […]

Avalanche advisories recommend backcountry travellers be cautious over the next few days as very touchy conditions have been observed, with avalanches failing easily on a buried layer in the upper snowpack.  Winds have created snow slabs over top of surface hoar causing the Canadian Avalanche Centre to predict high to considerable avalanche danger in the […]

By: Jordan Bateman, B.C. Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation The stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve is usually a cause for celebration. This year, the bell tolls ominously for property taxpayers across British Columbia. At least two dozen Canadian Union of Public Employees’ (CUPE) contracts expire on Dec. 31, 2011, affecting thousands of […]

Just hours away from his most important day of the year, Santa Claus (aka St. Nicholas, Father Christmas) is stressed, according to sources close to the North Pole. A senior North Pole official, who asked to remain unnamed, told The Source yesterday that Claus is feeling the pressure of delivering a white Christmas while going […]