A group of ten Selkirk College students in the Integrated Environmental Planning Program (IEP) spent a week off-grid on the west coast studying the impacts of climate change on a delicate ecosystem. Just prior to completing their two-year IEP diploma,students and their instructors traveled from Castlegar to Calvert Island on...

Residents of Ymir say they’re alarmed by plans of BC Timber Sales to allow logging in their community watershed. They’re concerned that their tiny community water system could be damaged by forestry operations in the area. “It’s our only source of drinking, consumable and firefighting water,” says Jay Leus, a resident of Ymir...

Dear Readers: I would like to take this opportunity to express my immeasurable gratitude to the people of Rossland for their tremendous support for me and the BC Greens. Green Party supporters throughout the Kootenay West area should take pride in their voices, and votes, being heard louder than ever before! I am so proud of...

Salmo Mayor Stephen White and council passed the tax and budget bylaw for the Village during Tuesday's regular meeting that has taxpayers see a two percent increase in taxes for the upcoming year. The 2017 budget and property tax bylaw came following months of public meetings in the Village of Salmo. “We are very pleased to have kept taxes low, while budgeting for significant infrastructure and community upgrades,” Mayor White said Thursday in a media release.

Environment Canada ended its Severe Thunderstorm Watch as of Thursday afternoon for most of the Southern Interior. However, regions can still expect the risk of thunderstorms and snow at higher elevations as an unsettled weather pattern continues to grip the region. As for people travelling highways in the province, spring ...

Two meetings to report here:  May 4 and May 8.  Read on! Rossland City Council held a Public Hearing on the new Financial Plan and the new municipal property tax rates on Thursday, May 4.  Council was present, and Financial Manager Elma Hamming explained the changes and answered questions from the four interested citizens who...

In 1926, U.S. automaker Henry Ford reduced his employees’ workweek from six eight-hour days to five, with no pay cuts. It’s something workers and labour unions had been calling for, and it followed previous reductions in work schedules that had been as high as 84 to 100 hours over seven days a week. Ford wasn’t responding to...

Before the last federal election, Liberal party leader (now Prime Minister) Justin Trudeau repeatedly promised voters that Canada would not have another election under the "first-past-the-post" electoral system. If we had only two political parties and no gerrymandering, that system would work perfectly well.  But with more...

            How many of you are gaining more weight than you want, can’t seem to lose it or are having a hard time getting rid of that mid-abdominal bulge? This is becoming one of the most prevalent patterns in the last 20 years and is still overlooked by so many. With our increasingly sedentary lifestyles, eating on the run,...

To The Editor: A strategy to end strategic voting: The political landscape in British Columbia has been plagued by polarized politics for as long as anyone can remember. Many voters find themselves voting to block something they despise and/or wasting their vote all together. The way out of this mess is to reform our voting...