The Kootenay Carshare Cooperative (KCC) may open a Rossland branch thanks to Sustainability Commission (SC) efforts, but first there must be a clear signal of interest from the community. “Rossland is pretty much the ideal town for car sharing," said Alex Loeb, the SC carshare lead. "We’re asking interested businesses and...

Rossland Council's Feb. 25 meeting put a new animal bylaw in motion, heard an appeal from the museum, moved the farmers’ market back downtown, reset the Cook Ave. development, dove into a new recreation bursary program, and agreed to the possibility of a taxation increase to fund a reserve for the hospital in Trail. Public ...

The West’s hypocrisy and oil-greed are coming home to roost with a vengeance in Libya as the Arab spring in that country turns into a nightmarish winter characterized by armed gangs, economic collapse, a decline in services by an incompetent government and increasing political domination by radical Islamists. Whether or not...

They're off. The start to B.C.'s official pre-campaign period for the 2013 election campaign is well underway.    Day one of the pre-campaign would have been an easy miss, coming as it did on the same day a meteor crashed to earth and the Canucks fell to the Dallas Stars.    Heck, Elections BC didn't even post a news release...

As the once-per-decade review process for federal riding's comes to a close, including a hotly contested redistribution of the Southern Interior riding in which Rossland sits, the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission submitted their proposal to the House of Commons without any significant changes."The final configuration...

Rossland council's regular meeting on Feb. 13 covered a lot of ground, from planning for the inevitable spring dog doo thaw, to the federal government's decision to change our electoral riding apparently, opponents say, to dye our orange with some blue. The lid's wide open for Pitch-In 2013 For several years, Coun. Jill Spearn...

Council's Feb. 13 meeting was marked by the 70-odd people who turned up to advocate for the continued funding of the Kootenay Columbia Trails Society, which triggered an idea by Coun. Cary Fisher that grabbed the rest of council. In other news, the city is now preparing for imminent 2013 budget discussions, a grant for...

Conservation Officer Ben Beetlestone arrived in Rossland at 8 a.m. last Saturday morning to meet with the owner of a dog that had been attacked the night before in Lower Rossland. Minutes later, another resident phoned in a sighting and, at 8:45, Beetlestone found and shot a cougar. "It was thin and had some sort of illness,"...

In my Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) column (Part I) I gave a general description of this Inter-Parliamentary Forum held in Vladivostok, Russian.  During the meeting, resolutions were adopted that will be presented to each of the countries represented at the APPF and it is possible that these statements will wind up...

The last section in the Municipal Act calls on the Minister to “establish a process for the review of this Act” within 10 years after its adoption. The Act was adopted in 1998, and by the time the Minister complied with section 371, that deadline had long ago expired. However, the review process is now underway and although...