Many struggling Canadians hoped that today’s budget would offer meaningful supports and steps towards recovery. But more than that, they hoped that it would be the ultra-wealthy who have profited from the pandemic who would be paying for these supports, not the workers who have been hit so hard.  According to local MP, Richard...

Driving is one of the riskiest things people may do at work. Small business owners in Trail and Rossland need to know how to keep employees – and themselves — safe behind the wheel while on the job. To help them, Road Safety At Work offers a free interactive webinar, Road Safety 101 for Small […]

As human activity continues to heat the planet and destroy wildlife habitat, plants and animals are responding based on their genetic makeup and ability to adapt to altered environments. Some are losing ground, landing on ever-growing species-at-risk lists or winking out altogether. Others are making gains, eking out their ...

Tax rates and Five Year Plan;  moving a garden;  new art;  Mid-town Transition Project tender awarded;  pool times; more Disc Golf;  juggling ice time;  please don’t poison the bees; and the full RDKB report Present for both meetings:  Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Chris Bowman,...

A Kaslo area farmer has been given permission to plant mushrooms along a local trail as an unusual experiment in community gardening. Robin Mercy was given the okay to “inoculate” (as planting mushrooms is called) logs along Kaslo’s Wardner Trail by council last month. He says the pilot project is a test of principles of […]

High School student volunteers at Seven Summits Centre for Learning in Rossland are available until the end of May to help out with garden chores and spruce up outside spaces for local residents, as the innovative educator launches 'The Big Rossland Spring Yard Clean Up'.    "The students need a certain number of volunteer ...

[Editor's note:  the map accessed by the link at the beginning of the fourth paragraph from the bottom takes a long time to load, but provides sobering information about the state of BC's forests.] Anyone who’s read the book I wrote with Wayne Grady, Tree: A Life Story, or Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees, knows...

Readers will have seen a news item about a couple who crossed the border after getting medical services in the United States, and were accused of not following required procedures, and were issued a fine for $3,450 for their “non-compliance.”  But there is much more to that story, and readers should know what really happened...

To The Editor: I’m sure that the residents who live on Washington St. are litterly shaking their head over this article. Speeding on Washington Street is just as bad as it ever has been. The narrower roadway has made no difference. As Washington Street is a busy street, I can assure you that the police officer hasn’t even...

For the last eight months, St Andrew’s United Church in Rossland has been undergoing major development works as part of a $344,000 renovation project funded by a Built Heritage Columbia Basin Trust grant.  Having been unsuccessful in its latest grant bid to finish off the works, it is calling on its community to dig deep and...