Volunteers – please take a bow.  We honour you, and we’re grateful for all your help.  Collectively, you do such a huge amount of good for people in your communities.    Our communities rely heavily on volunteers for so much that makes our hometowns great places to live.  Service clubs, Fall Fair, Winter Carnival, our arts ...

Energy is inextricably linked to a range of community issues, from health to housing. That was one message that emerged from a four-day gathering in Calgary of more than 200 young Indigenous leaders from every province and territory, organized by Disa Crow Chief of the Siksika Nation and Cory Beaver of the Stoney Nakoda Nation....

Those plans for housing and other uses aren’t firm yet, though, and the City wants to hear from us about the project.  There’s a Public Open House at the  Miners Hall on March 5, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, to let us know what has happened until then, and we can give our informed opinions once we’re up to speed – since uninformed...

I see many patients who have been diagnosed with an Autoimmune disease and feel extremely overwhelmed and fearful.  In Naturopathic Medicine, there are many things we can do to reduce or even resolve the symptoms of autoimmune disease.  Autoimmune conditions are now just chronic diseases that can mostly be managed by removing...

A family of four was driven from their home on Victoria Avenue in the early hours of  Feb. 22, when neighbours alerted them to the flames and smoke erupting from their roof.  Firefighters from Rossland, Trail and Warfield were called at just before 2:30 a.m., and were able to put out the fire and protect neighbouring homes ...

Skiers accessing Cutblock Peak and environs:  please contain your irritation about the logging operation there that is inconveniencing you – it won’t be there for much longer.  Please stay well clear of the logging -- and please do not park on the logging road, or try to ignore the logging operations.  Here’s why: First, let’s...

B.C.'s NDP is now doing precisely what it criticizes the Liberals for doing — manufacturing a need for power while pushing forward with a project that produces energy that can’t be sold for even close to the price it will cost to produce it. By Sarah Cox, for The Narwhal Of all the years of political spin to...

Rossland moves toward more energy-efficient building requirements;  a new sculpture soon;  construction to begin on the old Cook Avenue School site; quibbles on climate accountability Rossland City Council Meeting, February 19, 2019 Present: Councillors Andy Morel (Acting Mayor),  Janice Nightingale, Scott...

A re-visioning of old habits Today I am trying to explore an old habit of my judgement, with regard to an historical fact I have long attempted to assimilate to a personal sense of justice. The West has dominated the world for 400 years, and practically ruled it for a century from about 1850 t0 1950. The rest of the world...

RCMP West Kootenay Traffic and Castlegar RCMP Detachment attended a head-on collision on Highway 3A on Friday morning, near Thrums, which resulted in one fatality, according to RCMP West Kootenay Traffic Services Sgt. Chad Badry “On Friday, Feb. 15, at approximately 9:45 a.m., members of the RCMP West Kootenay Traffic Services and Castlegar Detachment attended […]