Dr. Serena Deketele, CCFP(EM), has joined the KERPA team, bringing with her a strong background in emergency medicine, trauma care, and learner, interprofessional, and physician education. After completing her training, Serena began practicing Emergency Medicine in 2019, gaining frontline experience in busy emergency departments where she managed a broad spectrum of acute and critical presentations, […]

This is a short trip down memory lane with a retired traffic cop: me. Having recently completed a round trip from Vancouver Island to the West Kootenays and back, I had plenty of time to think along the way. There were ghosts along Highway 3 from the Manning Park works yard to Rock Creek, one […]

The world must move away from coal, gas and oil — quickly. Fossil fuels pollute land, water and air, create global instability and energy price volatility, increase the gap between rich and poor and alter the climate in ways that threaten health and survival. But it’s difficult to accomplish this when the global economic system […]

BC NDP MLA Steve Morissette says new provincial funding for a local project means Trail will be better able to withstand and adapt to natural hazards and climate-caused disasters. “The Trail Creek Flood Mitigation Plan will provide the Village of Warfield with a comprehensive, climate informed approach to reducing flood and erosion risks,” said Steve […]

The Kootenays own astrophysicists are hosting an event that highlights both our communities and our heavens. Her letter is as follows: My name is Steffani Grondin and I am an astrophysicist at the University of California San Diego. My colleague Ella Meyer (CC’ed) is a Quantum Computing Outreach Coordinator at the University of British Columbia. We […]

This week I rose to recognize and highlight an organization that quietly, consistently and effectively strengthens the backbone of our province, rural British Columbia: I am speaking about Community Futures British Columbia. Across our province, from coastal communities to the Interior, from the North to the Kootenays, Community Futures offices are embedded directly in the communities […]

By Andy Morel, Mayor of Rossland British Columbians expect that when the provincial authorities set rules for Environmental Assessments and project permitting those rules will be applied. Yet on Record Ridge, just outside Rossland in the West Kootenays, critical information appears to be incomplete or missing. There is no Human Health Risk Assessment, despite its […]

Question: After I have turned left onto a street that has 2 lanes of travel for my direction, how far do I have to drive before I can change into the right lane? I recently had a situation where a driver turning right on red nearly hit me when I tried to move over. Who is […]

Hello friends, In case you haven’t already heard, the Greater Trail Hospice Society is hosting a fundraising LIVE DANCE AND AUCTION on Saturday, May 2, at the Rossland Legion at 2081 Washington Street at 6 p.m. Hospice serves our communities from Fruitvail to Rossland by offering compassionate, inclusive and practical support during life limiting illness, end of […]

End of a state of no very “righteous” origin “Today people can hardly imagine their social environment without a state. The irony of history is that despite the rise and the fall of ideologies rejecting the state or trying to limit it (anarchism, liberalism, libertarianism, communism), the state has gradually become stronger, particularly in the […]