Business tax changes? Questions on short-term rentals and street lights; who should teach kids how to cook? -- and more.
Regular Meeting of Rossland City Council, Tuesday, September 5, 2017 Present: Acting Mayor Lloyd McLellan, and Councillors Andrew Zwicker, Marten Kruysse, John Greene, and Andy Morel (Absent: Mayor Kathy Moore, Aaron Cosbey) There was no one present to speak up for Public Input Period. Delegation: Mike Kent, Youth Action...
Women -- Want to Learn Coding?
Brought to you by the Kootenay Association for Science and Technology This workshop has been designed for absolute beginners. We’ll use a hands-on project based approach to learn how to put data to use for us in our everyday lives. During the session, you’ll learn the following: An introduction to the history of artificial ...
BC Government's Credit Card Charges for 2016-17
There's nothing quite like poring through 87,527 credit card charges to the B.C. government's plastic in 2016/17. Charges that can often be on top of a company's billings to existing government accounts. For instance, last year, Sensus Communications billed the government $79,286, while various ministries put an additional ...
Op/Ed: We Need to Stop Killing Endangered Right Whales
Article by James Wilt, first published in DeSmog Canada. The summer of 2017 was an extraordinarily deadly one for North Atlantic right whales, a species already hovering on the brink of extinction. Investigations are ongoing into the cause of death of 15 right whales off the Atlantic Coast of Canada and the U.S., although...
Queen City Cruise purrs on all cylinders
For the former president of the Nelson Road Kings Automobile club, it makes perfect sense to tie in this year’s Queen City Cruise with the end of Nelson’s Art Walk season. “To my mind, they’re works of art,” says Mike Keegan of the 400-plus cars that will be on display on Baker Street this weekend in the Heritage City....
Column: Floods and Sponges
When the Aztecs founded Tenochtitlán in 1325, they built it on a large island on Lake Texcoco. Its eventual 200,000-plus inhabitants relied on canals, levees, dikes, floating gardens, aqueducts and bridges for defence, transportation, flood control, drinking water and food. After the Spaniards conquered the city in 1521, they...
Smoky Skies Bulletin the norm for the next few days
According to the FireSmoke.ca website, the smoke plaguing the Boundary/West Kootenay is going to be intense over the next few days. The website for heavy smoke filtering into the region through into Thursday. The high smoke accumulation has the Ministry of Environment & Climate Change Strategy, in collaboration with the...
UPDATED: No significant growth toward communities from Harrop Creek Wildfire
The Regional District of Central Kootenay Emergeny Operations Centre said in a media release Tuesday while the Harrop Creek Wildfire continues to burn, there has been no significant growth towards the communities below. However, the RDCK EOC said the communities of Harrop, Procter, Sunshine Bay, and Kootenay Lake Village...
Single-Vehicle Crash at the Wedding Cake Corner
Emergency responders answered a call on Sunday evening, September 3, 2017, at 6:30 pm, and found that a vehicle had gone over the bank and crashed to a halt about 150 feet down the hill. Rescuers from Rossland, Warfield and Trail fire halls were at the scene in less than 15 minutes. They extricated one person from the...
Wildfires force some residents out of their homes in Southeast Fire Centre
RCMP and BC Sheriffs are now patrolling the Moyie Lake area after the Regional District of East Kootenay implemented a full evacuation order for the area due to the aggressive nature of the Lamb Creek wildfire Sunday. Patrols were instituted after the Regional District of East Kootenay issued an Evacuation Order Moyie Lake ...
