It has long been well known that fine particulates and volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) containing carcinogens, including benzene and other toxic chemicals, are released from wood burning stoves and that these are a proven serious health hazard.  However, what is not widely known is the scale or magnitude of the impact of...

To Time Change, or not to Time Change . . . that is the question. The first Sunday of November has been designated as the end of Daylight Savings Time in most places. However, for people wanting to not change at all, there's a resident in Kamloops has started an online petition to stop Daylight Savings Time. Robert Dieno has...

Note:  This article was originally posted on the Worldwatch Institute blog. Worldwatch is an independent research organization based in Washington, D.C. that works on energy, resource, and environmental issues. Much of the energy of the environmental movement and of policymaking is focused on reducing greenhouse gas...

In July, a pipeline leak near Maidstone, Saskatchewan, spilled about 250,000 litres of diluted oil sands bitumen into the North Saskatchewan River, killing wildlife and compromising drinking water for nearby communities, including Prince Albert. It was one of 11 spills in the province over the previous year. In October, a...

The Rossland Council for Arts and Culture wants to commission a new sculpture to be installed in front of the newly renovated  Miners Union Hall, and has issued a call for submissions to all local artists. Public sculptures have been a popular feature of downtown Columbia Avenue since 2008.  RCAC has already commissioned and...

The forest industry has been a critically important sector in the BC economy for over a century, but it has been hit hard.  A 30-year trade war with the United States cost our industry billions of dollars.  The softwood lumber agreement did bring back certainty to lumber export access and costs, but the Canadian industry paid...

What do you do when your world changes in an instant? Following the tragic news of her husband’s skiing accident which left him a quadriplegic, Invermere’s own Cassy Campbell did what any mom would do: she decided to take her newly purchased hobby-business to the next level all while becoming her family’s primary breadwinner,...

Seven Summits Centre for Learning in Rossland hosted a cross-country running race at BlackJack on October 19, with 80 students participating from over a dozen schools.  There was a 2-kilometre race for elementary students, a 4-kilometre race for junior males, junior females, and  senior females, and a 6-kilometre race for senior males.  The Rossland Telegraph […]

Joelle Hodgins, Director of the Rossland Museum and Discovery Centre, has been elected to serve on the  British Columbia Museums Association Council.  She is one of six new members of the Council, along with Jodi Simpkin, executive director of Nuyumbalees Cultural Centre; Catherine Ouellet-Martin, administrative manager of ...

For those of us who thought October had to have been the wettest month since the beginning of time, try again. According to Ron Lakeman, Weather Forecaster for the Southeast Fire Centre in Castlegar October 2016 was by far the "wettest October since local records began in the mid 1960s." "The 207.6 millimetres of rain (no...