Attention businesses in downtown Rossland: Columbia Basin Trust has extended the deadline until April 27, 2016,  to decide whether or not to sign up for a year of fibre-optic broadband with a service provider, and get the service installed for FREE -- a considerable saving. In a message to the service providers, Columbia Basin...

Rossland City Council:  Regular Meeting, April 11, 2016 Present:  Mayor Kathy Moore, Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Andy Morel,  John Greene, Aaron Cosbey, and Andrew Zwicker.  Absent:  Marten Kruysse Public Hearing:   Anthony Bell, owner of Red Barn Lodge,  spoke to support Bylaw  #2607 to change the zoning for 2615A Railway ...

Two people from Saskatchewan have been killed after a plane crashed in the mountains north of Nakusp. Nakusp RCMP received a report at approximately 5:20 p.m. on Monday, of a downed airplane in the Trout Lake area near the Galena Lodge after the automatic beacon on the plane notified provincial authorities of an incident.. ...

(Author’s note: This column is an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Christy Clark and has been sent to them by snail mail.)  “A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species to which he belongs.”         ...

Rossland Council met again on Thursday, April 7, to review a second draft of a proposed budget to present to residents for their comments.  Council hopes that, on April 13, local taxpayers will get informed and give them useful information on which amenities the City should continue to fund, and which amenities citizens would...

BC's lone Green Party MLA, Andrew Weaver, has been busy lately.  He has proposed Bill M214 — Local Government Amendment Act, 2016, which would amend the Local Government Act by repealing parts of Section 8. Those parts were passed by the BC Legislature in 2012, apparently for the sole purpose of creating more favourable...

BC retiree Dr. Brenda Trenholme’s epic fundraising cycling adventure across Africa has passed the half-way point. Brenda is undertaking a 4 month, ten country, 12,000+km trip by bicycle from Cairo, Egypt to Cape Town, South Africa, fundraising for scholarships for Kenyan students. “High school is not free in Kenya”, Brenda ...

Bats!  Such harmless and essential creatures -- yet, even now, still so often feared and  misunderstood.  If you see a bat flying around at dusk in the Kootenays, be aware that the little creature is eating insects at a great rate.  Insect-eating bats are of vital importance to farmers around the world for controlling insect...

         When I look out the window at this time of year, I see the black speckled snow piles disappearing and the increased dust and gravel on the streets and sidewalks. Most people assume the black specks are dirt, but they are also moulds. Here are the solutions to stop or minimize symptoms of  sneezing, nasal or sinus...

 Special Meeting of Rossland City Council, April 4, 2016, 3:00 pm Present:  Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Andrew Zwicker, Andy Morel, Aaron Cosbey, and John Greene  Public Input:   KCTS President  Ryan Kuhn  spoke on the value to communities of trails.  "Trails are considered a primary driver of migration...