As we enter into the final days before Christmas and prepare to spend time with our loved ones, it’s a great time for us to also look at the impact our holiday season has on our environment. We all expect to have extra waste during the holidays, but every year our nations have increases as […]

Celgar manager Al Hitzroth shared some of his company’s perspectives today regarding a tax dispute between Celgar and the City of Castlegar, discussing a conflict that has been gaining widespread media attention since it began in July. The issue had arisen months before that, in fact, when Celgar demanded a 50-per-cent tax cut in December […]

The following is a press release issued by the provincial government:   Environment Minister Barry Penner is asking British  Columbians for their input on whether additional restrictions should be  placed on the use of pesticides for cosmetic purposes. “It just makes sense to limit pesticide use to what is actually  required to accomplish a particular […]

It appears the Grinch is at work in Castlegar, marring the holiday season with ill-considered “pranks” that could ultimately cost people their lives. Castlegar RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew said there have been at least five known incidences of suspects throwing rocks and/or chunks of wood at passing vehicles along the 800 block of Columbia Avenue, […]

A request, by the City of Castlegar, for the B.C. Supreme Court to expedite the case filed against the city by Celgar for “unreasonable” tax rates has been refused. Castlegar mayor Lawrence Chernoff said he found out in a meeting Monday that Celgar said “no” to a January court date and, since Celgar’s approval was […]

Castlegar’s most recent wave of Swine Flu (H1N1) has crested and is receding, but the pandemic isn’t over yet. The city emergency ward, according to Cheryl Whittleton, team leader for emergency and flu coordinator for IHA, is still seeing an average one or two patients a day with flu-like symptoms – which means contagion is […]

Castlegar police are cautioning against the kind of Good Samaritan-ship that saw an alleged jewelry thief chased down and captured yesterday. “An RCMP member was on routine patrol in the 1900 block of Columbia Avenue, around 11 a.m. when he came across a male holding another male down on the ground,” explained Sgt. Laurel Mathew. […]

Air Canada Jazz will be cancelling its weekday afternoon flights to Vancouver from the West Kootenay Regional airport in Castlegar for the month of January. City councillor and chair of the transportation and civic works committee Russ Hearne said the cancellation is not a harbinger of worse things to come. “It’s only for the month […]

The BC SPCA is offering animal lovers a way to stay “pawsitive” about the holiday shopping season this year. The society’s Pawsitive Gifts program lets you buy something special for all those animal lovers on your list without ever leaving the comfort of your home. And the best part is that you’re helping a homeless […]

A new commanding officer is just part of the shake-up going on at the Castlegar RCMP detachment, as a long-awaited local policing initiative finally gets off the ground. Now that Sgt. Laurel Mathew is at the helm of the department, and a new corporal on the way to join the team at the end of […]