The destructive nature of oil on clean water environments is certainly no surprise to anyone who has watched the news recently. As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, there is a group traveling around BC this summer informing folks that even the smallest spills of oil can have devastating effects on our environment....

A group of eight British Columbia medical and health organizations are calling on the provincial government to enact province-wide legislation banning the sale and use of cosmetic pesticides. The group is also clarifying two common myths surrounding cosmetic pesticides because of emerging evidence of human toxicity, especially to the vulnerable, young and old.  “Despite the completion […]

 Way back in the day, when I was a kid, it was a big deal in our family when the West Coast Seafood truck stopped in town, bearing with it a variety of frozen fish, theoretically from the West Coast.  There was an ad in the paper announcing the day the truck would be in town, my mom would make a note of it, my brothers and ...

 Over nineteen Free Gaza Movement activists died yesterday when Israeli Defense Force commandos boarded vessels in international waters attempting to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Reports say over 19 people are dead and over 30 were injured, including a captain. There is a radio and satellite blackout from the ships, ...

Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) is partnering with the Province of British Columbia to construct 114 affordable housing units for seniors and persons with disabilities in eight communities throughout the Basin; Cranbrook, Kimberley, Creston, Baynes Lake, Golden, Revelstoke, New Denver and Valemount will each see projects built as a result of the partnership. “One of our goals is to assist communities […]

A glimmer of light is indeed at the end of the tunnel for the railway serving Grand Forks and northwest Washington. A proposal developed by a collaboration between the railway operators, OmniTrax, and the users of the line including International Forest Products Ltd. (Interfor), Pacific Abrasives, International Reload Systems...

An unexpected turn of events took the wind out of the sails of the many people prepared to continue the fight for the survival of their small school. At School District 51’s meeting of the Board of Trustees last Tuesday, May 11, trustees unanimously voted to stop the Beaverdell school closure consultation process, but voted […]

Ironically enough, Rossland Search and Rescue, a volunteer group primarily dedicated to helping bring lost people home, is searching for a home themselves. Since they were established in 1999, the 55-member non-profit society has been meeting in the Rossland Fire Hall while storing their mobile command centre at the city works...

There’s no easy answer for School District 51’s Board of Trustees in the case of the possible closure of the Beaverdell Elementary School if the decision is based on the public meeting held on Tuesday, Apr. 27 in Beaverdell. The community came out in full force to support their small school with over 100 people […]

One of the sure signs that spring has arrived for good in Rossland is the sight of residents shoveling inches of gravel off their front lawns, raking up last year's leaves, picking up the dogs' winter contributions to the landscaping and other general spring cleanup. From the new homeowners eagerly getting to the handy man ...