Rossland will be entering the national WinterLights Competition for the first time this winter. WinterLights is the winter version of the Communities in Bloom competition held each summer across Canada. Participating in this competition will allow Rossland to showcase its many snowy charms; the overarching goal of the competition...

A subdued crowd of around one hundred people met at the Miner’s Hall Wednesday evening for a public hearing on the new Official Community Plan. Mayor Gordon Smith chaired the evening and kicked it off with a review of the lengthy process and time put in by the various stakeholders and community members who worked together to...

Starting Thursday, October 9, 2008, Rossland's new newspaper will be up and running. It should be quite a start, given that we're heading into the local election season. It's not as big a deal as the national elections here at home or in the States, perhaps, but as we all know, Rossland city politics never lack for drama or...

Was it only five years ago that Rosslanders took to the streets in a scene reminiscent of Paris in ’68 or Prague in ’89? Was it really only five short years ago that residents of this city took a brave but doomed stance against the installation of two soulless sentinels against our erstwhile bucolic skyscape? The pair of...

Hurricane Ike left a big mess behind as it passed over Galveston, Texas, and other Gulf Coast areas, but the mess wasn't just from debris. Just as with Hurricane Katrina, the combination of destructive high winds and subsequent flooding have created a toxic soup that's potentially dangerous to residents, cleanup crews, and ...