At the last meeting of Rossland City Council, during the Public input session, a resident (mistakenly, but understandably – see below) stated that Fruitvale has only 100 fewer people than Rossland, and has only 4 employees, while Rossland has 18 at City Hall.  Now, the resident had some numbers wrong – Fruitvale’s population...

A couple of mountain bikers on the Seven Summits trail made it nearly to the end of their ride, but had suffered four flat tires and needed help getting back to their vehicle.  RCMP received the call at 8:23 pm on August 15, and found a pair of exhausted but otherwise uninjured bikers with their injured bikes, and transported...

The City of Rossland has received a copy of the response to the request for a referendum on the proposed affordable housing/city hall project in development for the old EMCON lot on 3rd Ave. The request, along with the petition, was sent to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing by a Facebook group called the Rossland...

By Stephanie Wood, for The Narwhal Even a low-ball prediction for the number of sockeye returning to B.C. river was too high and First Nations and conservationists say government mismanagement and lice infestations are partly to blame Scientists at the Pacific Salmon Commission knew 2020 wouldn’t be a great year for...

First Responders from Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue stations in Rossland and Trail received a call for help at 11:20 on Wednesday, August 19, 2020, and were able to reach an injured man in the Red Mountain area by 11:41.  Crews worked together to extract a man with a possible broken hip – resulting from a mountain ...

On Aug.16, at 8:31 p.m., Castlegar RCMP responded to a report of a residential break and enter to a Lynnwood Crescent home where the suspect or suspects allegedly stole tools, jewellery and sporting goods. In order to advance its criminal investigation, Castlegar RCMP executed a search warrant on Aug. 17 to a residence located in […]

Columbia Basin Trust is a unique and amazing organization, with huge benefits to residents of the Columbia Basin.  As most people know, it was set up in 1995 with a lump-sum settlement to help compensate the region for damage and losses caused by construction of dams under the Columbia River Treaty, which was signed in 1964,...

Correction: the wrong link was originally provided for the book report in The Tyee.  That has been corrected. Many local gardeners have commented that gardening has been strange this year. We had a long, cold, wettish spring and early summer – but that’s not so very unusual, is it? It surely saved on sprinkling, until summer...

Bill Morneau resigned as Minister of Finance on Monday.  I enjoyed my interactions with the former minister—he was approachable and often crossed the aisle to chat with me when I had a question or comment on financial issues affecting my constituents.  Rumour has it that he was at odds with the rest of the cabinet when it...

By Dan Guadagnolo for The Conversation As the Canadian economy slowly recovers from COVID-19 lockdowns, there have been news articles suggesting the Canada Emergency Response Benefit is encouraging workers to stay off the job. But a peek behind the headlines reveals the source of the story to be a business lobby group using...