Rossland’s newly elected council held their inaugural meeting this past Monday night, getting together formally for the first time. Running through a short agenda, issues from the past council were recycled both literally and figuratively. During the September 9th meeting of the previous council it was decided to send a letter...

On December 10, 2008, to help celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights, the Rossland Secondary School Amnesty International Group and the Rossland Interact Club (under the aegis of teacher/sponsor Marilyn Nelson) will host a community event to write letters to governments worldwide for...

In just two years, the Softwood Lumber Agreement has cost BC's forest industry more than half a billion dollars in new export taxes and led some companies to invest outside the province, a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds. "Far from delivering security, the Canada-US softwood pact has seriously...

With a lot of talk around town about our watershed and water coming into Rossland, discussion flipped to the downhill side of the equation Tuesday evening as the matter of our waste water came before council. A letter was circulated to councillors outlining Trail’s recommendations for a reformed regional agreement. Recommendations...

Following up on last week’s story about the city’s plan to rezone a parcel of land involved with the 88 Creekside development, the issue will now go to a public hearing before being decided upon by the city. On Tuesday council voted unanimously to set the date of the public hearing regarding the zoning change for October 27th...

The issue of whether or not dogs should be allowed downtown seems to have caught the attention of many people in town. Originally brought up at council by Councillor Steve Knox as a recommendation to rescind the current bylaw banning dogs from the downtown area, The Chamber of Commerce is currently pushing the issue. Businesses...