Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue (KBRFR) has added a thermal imaging camera to its fire fighting arsenal.  Retriev Technologies in Waneta donated the $7,000 camera to firefighters at the Trail Station on May 26. “We’re extremely thankful to Retriev Technologies for providing us with an indispensable tool to help us...

The learning community at Seven Summits Centre for Learning in Rossland (7S) is celebrating the success of 2016 7S High School Grad Sage Robine after she was chosen as ‘The most Outstanding Biological Sciences Undergraduate of the Year’ by The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF).   Based upon combined achievement and academic...

Thirty-three years ago, NASA scientist James Hansen told a U.S. congressional committee the agency was 99 per cent certain a global warming trend was not natural, but caused by a buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, mainly from burning fossil fuels.  “Global warming has reached a level such that we can ascribe with...

Kootenay Outdoor and Environmental Learning Society in Rossland is pleased with the recent announcement of awarded $14,000 by the CleanBC Plastics Action Fund, a British Columbia Provincial Government initiative. “These funds will be used primarily to purchase materials to construct machines for manufacturing products from ...

Canada is in the middle of a housing crisis, and the south Okanagan, Boundary and West Kootenay areas are very much in the middle of that crisis.  This is an urgent and rapidly growing problem that demands the cooperation and priority of all levels of government. The crisis has emerged out of a perfect storm of factors....

                              [To review Part One, click this link] Economy and capital The meaning of capital in economics is a subject with a vast literature and I am certainly not qualified to analyse it as well as experts in the field. So I will recommend three authors and leave it at that. Charles Eisenstein has written...

Last week, six local theatre owners met with Adrian Dix, Minister of Health in British Columbia, and Roly Russell, MLA for Boundary-Similkameen, for a discussion on easing restrictions placed on theatres in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Business owners of all kinds have faced significant challenges as we’ve navigated ...

The Alzheimer Society of B.C. continues to provide residents of Trail and Rossland affected by dementia with practical tips and information through its regular webinar series. Upcoming June events include sessions on music and dementia, as well as the opportunity to hear directly from people living with dementia as they reflect...

People working in Rossland will soon have access to 37 affordable rental homes, with construction starting on a new mixed-use building in the community. The project is targeted toward individuals and couples with moderate and low incomes working in the hospitality, retail, and service industries in the city. The four-storey...

Artists and supporters of the arts will soon have a new collective space for the community to learn, connect, and create art together in Rossland. The Rossland Arts Centre Society has submitted an application to lease the historic Drill Hall building on the corner of Monte Christo Street and 1st Avenue. The application is now...