Christmas Stress Test             With the Holiday Season ahead of us I worry about my ability to survive it one more time.  It will take almost a full month to recover from the excessive eating, the revitalizing visits, the frantic shopping and the compulsive decorating.  The repetitive experience of Christmas stress makes...

Skiers beware:  that new avalanche danger advisory from Avalanche Canada isn't just hot air.    In case anyone in Rossland isn't yet aware of the event,  three skiers were caught in a small release while skiing near Rossland recently, and one of them went to the hospital with a concussion. They were skiing on  fairly steep ...

The Beaver Valley Nitehawks added to what has been a dreadful season for the Nelson Leafs after scoring a 4-2 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League victory Friday night in Fruitvale. A powerplay goal by Braden Fuller with six minutes remaining in the game combined with an empty net marker — shorthanded, no less — by […]

Avalanche Canada is issuing a Special Public Avalanche Warning for recreational backcountry users, that includes the Kootenay-Boundary region, from Friday (December 11) to the end of the day Monday (December 14).Avalanche Canada said the warning applies to the central Columbia Mountains and encompasses portions of the following...

Whitewater officially launched the 2015/16 winter season Friday with daily operations. Skiers received an early taste of the new year last weekend when the hill opened for two days on one of the deepest snowpacks in North America. The celebration truly began when the resort announced it was joining the Powder Alliance, which offers Whitewater […]

The world is watching to see what comes out of the Paris climate summit. Montana Burgess is the West Kootenay EcoSociety's Community Organizer. She's attending the Paris UN climate summit with the Climate Action Network delegation and is reporting back to the West Kootenays on developments at the negotiations and what they ...

The Waneta Expansion Limited Partnership (WELP), a partnership between Fortis Inc., Columbia Power Corporation and Columbia Basin Trust, is accepting applications for the 2016 Waneta Terrestrial Compensation Program (WTCP). This program provides a total of up to $50,000 annually to projects in the Waneta area that promote...

Although a decision on the Nelson Police Department board budget request had been scheduled for the end of the month, the deadline has passed and no word has come from the province. And there is no hint of when that decision will come, before the end of the year or early in the new year, said Mayor Deb Kozak, also the chair...

Local climate change sock puppet experts, with the help of their colleagues Aaron Cosbey & Rachael Roussin, presented a lively overview of the global and local effects of climate change to a crowd of 90 people at the Miners Hall last Sunday. "Sock-rateez" warned Rosslanders that we can expect to see hotter, dryer summers...

There is an exciting movement happening in Rossland. It’s even visible from space…well, from planes and Google Earth at least.  It’s a movement that was critical to Rossland’s survival in the early years, went out of fashion for the better part of a century and is now re-emerging as an important part of our future.  A group...