Vancouver-based company Teck Resources announced today that it has come to an agreement in which it admits to almost a century of pollution in the Upper Columbia River through its Trail operations. Spokesman Richard Deane said the agreement is actually good news for Teck. “This litigation will ultimately what restoration, if any, is needed to […]

“Bear Dude” Allan Piche and his wife, Kathleen Wickie won’t be sentenced for their alleged production and possession of marijuana on their Christina Lake property until Thursday, Oct. 16. The couple was charged for growing and possessing marijuana for the purpose of trafficking after RCMP West Kootenay Traffic Service found 1,102 marijuana plants during a […]

Smoke billowing through the Columbia Valley and filling Castlegar and Trail is partly from a 200-hectare fire burning in Peachland, and also from a wilfire in Washington, about 100 km southwest of Grand Forks. Neither fire threatens communities in the tri-city area. There was one half-hectare wildfire caused by lightning Sunday afternoon, about five miles […]

Smoky skies in the Kootenay-Boundary region are due to wildfires burning in Washington and the Okanagan. The fires in Washington are approximately 100 kilometres southwest of Grand Forks and pose no threat to any Canadian forests or communities. There are currently no fires in the Southeast Fire Centre that threaten any...

The concrete curbs and swales on Columbia Ave will be completed this week. Sidewalks will continue to be poured and it is projected that sidewalks on Columbia Ave. will be finished by the week of September 17th, weather permitting.  The Project Communications Task Force recently asked a representative of ISL to explain how ...

Just as Hamlet contemplated suicide in Shakespeare’s play, Council is contemplating financial suicide for the taxpayers of Rossland.  Earlier this year, CAO Victor Kumar urged Council to  rescind the Development Cost Charge (DCC) bylaw. Mayor Granstrom and his happy band of robotic rubber-stampers were happy to oblige.  Only...

The Mir Centre for Peace at Selkirk College is pleased to host Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation of Commission of Canada.  The first speaker of the 2012-13 lecture series, Justice Sinclair will speak at the Brilliant Cultural Centre in Castlegar on September 21, about his role in educating all...

The Kootenay Columbia Trails Society (KCTS) is proud present its new website. The website rebuild has been made possible with the financial support of the Columbia Basin Trust, Nelson and District Credit Union and Tourism Rossland New features of the website are two-fold. Firstly updated trail descriptions, new formats,...

Groups with projects that support social well-being and address social issues in Basin communities can now apply to Columbia Basin Trust’s (CBT’s) new Social Grants Program. This is the first time applications are being accepted to the program, and a total of $500,000 is available for project grants. The application deadline is 4 p.m. PDT […]

Council declassified the in camera (closed meeting) minutes last night regarding the resignation of CAO Victor Kumar and his replacement by Cecile Arnott—seemingly by appointment rather than through an open job competition—but the details of the switch nevertheless remain unavailable for the moment.Coun. Kathy Moore was the...