The latest issue of Kootenay Business magazine notes that all 103 Kootenay women nominated as Influential Women in Business for 2018 are outstanding for their “business savvy and generosity of spirit in their communities.”  Of those nominees, three were chosen for special recognition from the East Kootenays, three from the ...

I have had many patients ask about optimal aging recently, therefore I have written a more substantial article about the effects of inflammation and cortisol on aging and how to reduce these to age optimally! What causes aging? ·       Aging is a natural process that is accelerated by oxidative damage to our cells.  Oxidative...

Rossland City Council, May 22, 2018 Present:  Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Andy Morel, John Greene, Aaron Cosbey and Andrew Zwicker.  Absent: Marten Kruyyse     Public Input Period:  The public gallery remained seated and silent.    REGISTERED  DELEGATIONS    Dan Wehrle and Mike Griffiths spoke to Council regarding Wherle’s...

By Ethan Linck, for High Country News (republished with permission) The twin summits of the mountain that U.S. Geological Survey Capt. George Davidson called “The Brothers” are 60 miles from Seattle on the far side of Puget Sound. From my office in the biology department at the University of Washington, I can just see their...

Kootenay Mountain Culture magazine and veteran journalist Bob Keating have landed in some fine company. Keating’s story, "Dammed & Determined," about the future of the Columbia River Treaty, has been nominated for a National Magazine Award in the Feature Writing category. Other nominees in this category include Maclean's, Chatelaine and Alberta Views. The winner will […]

Dear Editor When driving into Trail from Columbia Gardens/Waneta I am always awed at the beautiful Rossland Range. Normally, I don’t think much beyond the view, except to note the increasing white patches (clear cuts) on the landscape. Recently, I learned that Red Mountain Resorts was approved by Rossland City Council, to...

A couple from Saskatchewan, travelling the Kootenay Pass to Nelson for the Victoria Day long weekend is lucky to be alive after being pushed off Highway 3 by a landslide Thursday. Gabe Rosescu and Sheri Niemegeers were en route to the Heritage City to visit friends when the slide hit the vehicle they were driving […]

Volunteers are needed to help the flooded-out residents of Grand Forks. The Trail and District Chamber of Commerce is appealing to local businesses to send some employees to Grand Forks for a few hours to assist. Sandbagging efforts are winding down, but clean-up crews are needed. For people who would like to make a positive...

The Boundary Region continues to brace for the latest onslaught of Mother Nature as residents prepare for the second wave of flooding predicted to arrive in the next few days thanks to high temperatures and a forecasted large accumulation of precipitation. In preparation, the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary Emergency Operations Centre is warning the […]

While rivers grow and flow over their banks and spread through communities in southern BC, flooding streets and homes and businesses, people in those communities may have trouble imagining a risk of wildfire, even if they had time and energy to do more than deal as best they can with damage from the floodwaters and the trauma...