Greenwood may have lost their place as the top tap water in the world, but the great tasting water still took home two medals at the 23rd annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting Competition this past weekend. The Greenwood water got a bronze in the Best Municipal Water in the World category, where the same […]

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...

After upwards of 70 years in Trail, SJA is closing its Trail branch and disbanding its local first-aid Brigade, citing a diminished volunteer-base as the primary reason for the branch closure  – but never think that means they’re turning their backs on the  Kootenays. “Of course we’ll still be delivering programs in the Kootenays with […]

Back over Christmas, I eagerly unwrapped the gift of enormously diverse input given by respondents to December's DemocracySTORM survey. Now we’re in the second, more exciting phase of the storm—we’re asking you to vote on your favourite Budge the Budget ideas. You need not have participated to jump in right now and vote, so...

Below are 58 categories into which  I put people’s responses to the question, What key points should council consider before passing the budget? Separate articles address the questions: What should Rossland spend MORE money on? What should Rossland spend LESS money on?  And we also address concerns people have raised about ...

Below are 50 categories into which I put people’s responses to the question, What should Rossland spend LESS money on? Separate articles address the questions: What should Rossland spend MORE money on? What other key points should council consider before passing the budget? And we also address concerns people have raised about...

Below are 49 categories into which I put people’s responses to the question, What should Rossland spend MORE money on? Separate articles address the questions: What should Rossland spend LESS money on? What other key points should council consider before passing the budget? And we also address concerns people have raised about...

There’s a mixed reaction from downtown business owners to city council’s decision, at its last regular meeting, to ‘boot’ (immobilize) prolific parking violators with unpaid fines in the city’s downtown core (until now, the only options were to either impound the vehicle or issue a violation ticket). A report issued by city staff indicated the […]

Teck Trail Operations was officially charged Friday in relation to accidentally-discharged effluent with a higher-than-allowable pH-level, according to a press release issued by Teck representative Richard Deane. Deane said the incident occurred March 5, 2011, and the company is being charged under the Fisheries and Environmental Management Acts. He said the water used to clean […]

By Livio Di Matteo, The Fraser Institute “Even Greece, the poster child for rampant debt, carried an Ontario-style debt load as recently as 1984” — Don Drummond (2012) Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services Greece is experiencing a massive fiscal crisis rooted in rampant debt with resulting cuts to its public spending and […]