Like using the pool in Trail? Or any of the other recreational facilities and/or programs in the Silver City, for that matter? If so and you happen to be from Rossland, or anywhere other than Trail, from now on it’s going to cost you. Following the collapse of the regional recreation program, the city of Trail is moving to ...

In an age of bailouts, economic stimulus packages and billions upon billions of public dollars going to big failing corporations, The Telegraph is happy to report that a number of worthy local community groups, the kind that provide the sort of real community building that no bailout package could ever offer, are now at least...

A recent poll by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer shows that almost half of Canadians - 43 per cent - believe that developing cancer is just a matter of chance. While about 80 per cent of the survey’s respondents linked a healthy diet and exercise with heart disease and diabetes, 72 per cent were not aware of the link...

Acting on a set of free lift tickets my girlfriend picked up as a Christmas staff party prize we packed up skis, snowboards, food and a dog into the Jeep and headed 350km south and east for a mini-vacation at Silver Mountain in Kellogg Idaho. The resort is only a short three hour drive away; we didn’t realize until arriving...

A video posted recently on You Tube is a chilling demonstration of what can happen when the advice from the Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) is ignored. The video shows a snowmobiler climbing a steep face in the Monashee Mountains near Valemount, BC. Taped just two days ago, the snowmobiler climbs past the high marks left by...

April 1, 2009. An emergency city council meeting was held early this morning to discuss a development proposal for the old Bank of Montreal building. The Rossland Telegraph has learned that development firm Growing On Tall Corporate Housing Associates, based out of Santa Monica, California has been looking for a location to...

Several incidents of vandalism and theft around our city in the last month have gotten some people wondering whether or not this might be a growing trend in our relatively peaceful mountain town, or just a few random acts clumped together. Most recently, on March 18th, the RCMP responded to a break and enter at the Rossland...

There is a fascinating dichotomy that takes place daily in Rossland and is often the source of much debate. On one hand you have a town that on the whole seems to have an environmental conscience that runs deep. This is visible all over town from re-useable grocery bag campaigns through sustainability plans to marches down ...

Teck may be on the hook for millions of dollars for the large spill of lead and hydrofluoric acid from its Trail plant into the Columbia River in the spring of 2008. The spill, which occurred at approximately 5:30 PM on May 28th, 2008, was attributed to a heat exchanger in the lead refinery which failed, allowing electrolyte...

(Columbia Basin) - Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) is proud to announce a new three-year partnership with Enterprising Non-Profits (enp), a granting program that seeks to assist non-profit organizations operating a social enterprise. "In preparing our recently released Social Strategic Plan, non-profits told us they needed a variety...