Category 3 burning to be prohibited in the Southeast Fire Centre
Effective at noon PST on Friday, June 11, 2021, Category 3 open burning, as defined in the Wildfire Regulation, will be prohibited throughout the Southeast Fire Centre, which includes the Rocky Mountain Natural Resource District and the Selkirk Natural Resource District. The BC Wildfire Service is implementing this prohibition...
NDP MLA Katrine Conroy says new, affordable rentals coming to West Kootenays
NDP MLA Katrine Conroy says 46 new, affordable rental homes are coming to West Kootenays for people with low to moderate incomes. “People across the Kootenays know how important housing is to their own, their neighbours’, and their community’s wellbeing,” said MLA Conroy. “Communities big and small have been feeling the...
Meet Your Water Smart Ambassador, Sally Turnbull
Sally (she/her) was born and raised in Rossland and is looking forward to a great summer in the community. She just finished her second year of university at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, majoring in environmental chemistry. Sally is looking forward to integrating her studies into helping community members...
April sees 176 toxic illicit drug deaths, bringing 2021 total to 680 in BC
Preliminary reporting released by the BC Coroners Service confirms at least 176 British Columbians were lost to toxic illicit drugs in April, bringing the total number of deaths recorded in 2021 to 680. “Once again, we’re reminded that the scale of this public health emergency is truly unprecedented,” said Lisa Lapointe, chief coroner. “I offer my […]
RDKB lowers flags to honour Indigenous children found buried at Kamloops residential school
he Regional District of Kootenay Boundary has lowered its flags to half-mast at its Trail and Grand Forks offices in response to the 215 children whose remains were found by the Tk’emlúps te Secweìpemc at the former site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School. “The loss of any child is a terrible thing and every parent’s...
Thermal imaging camera donated to Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue
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...
Rossland student receives prestigious university accolade
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...
Column: International Energy Agency report provides a challenging 'roadmap'
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...
Rossland Refactory awarded CleanBC Plastics Action Funds
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 ...
MP Richard Cannings speaks to ongoing housing crisis
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....
