BC retiree Dr. Brenda Trenholme’s epic fundraising cycling adventure across Africa has passed the half-way point. Brenda is undertaking a 4 month, ten country, 12,000+km trip by bicycle from Cairo, Egypt to Cape Town, South Africa, fundraising for scholarships for Kenyan students. “High school is not free in Kenya”, Brenda ...

Bats!  Such harmless and essential creatures -- yet, even now, still so often feared and  misunderstood.  If you see a bat flying around at dusk in the Kootenays, be aware that the little creature is eating insects at a great rate.  Insect-eating bats are of vital importance to farmers around the world for controlling insect...

 Special Meeting of Rossland City Council, April 4, 2016, 3:00 pm Present:  Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Andrew Zwicker, Andy Morel, Aaron Cosbey, and John Greene  Public Input:   KCTS President  Ryan Kuhn  spoke on the value to communities of trails.  "Trails are considered a primary driver of migration...

Honourable Minister McCallum, The West Kootenay Friends of Refugees agreed to sponsor a Syrian family of four, through the BVOR program, on Jan.6/16.  As you are probably well aware, this is an exciting commitment for dozens of people in any sponsoring community.  We have spent countless hours fundraising and preparing the community of Rossland BC to welcome this […]

Discussions on electoral reform are as persistent in Canadian politics as is their failure to achieve results. Before any decisions are contemplated on what kind of electoral system would best serve Canadian democracy, we ought to reflect on which objectives elections are to advance in a democratic society. What is a democracy?...

 Seven Summits Centre for Learning  Will Take a New Form Rossland's innovative approach to maintaining K-12 education in Rossland is about to shift into a new phase, with a new form -- but what that form will be is not yet decided.  The new form is necessary because the provincial government has decided that it can no longer...

Editor's Note:  It's that time again.  If one hasn't already filed an income tax return, maybe the information below from the Canada Revenue Agency  will be helpful.  Or not.  Some of us dinosaurs prefer filing returns on actual paper -- which came in handy that year when large numbers of e-files were hacked.  But we're pretty...

By David Suzuki More Affordable + More Jobs In the midst of controversy over B.C.’s Peace River Site C dam project, the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association released a study showing the province could get the same amount of energy more affordably from geothermal sources for about half the construction costs. Unlike Site C,...

With materials from Rachael Roussin and Eva Cameron This is the beginning of the first spring season since volunteers placed plantings for the North Jubilee Park wetland last fall.  Those plantings have not had time to become well established or to grow; they are just beginning to emerge from their first winter's frost and ...

Rossland businesses within the "eligible area" have until April 8, 2016, to sign up for one year with an internet service provider in order to receive the benefit of a free connection to the broadband service.   At a presentation and demonstration at the Rossland Public Library on March 23, a crowd of people gathered to learn ...