Council Matters:  Rossland City Council, January 25, 2016 Council Members Present:  Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Andy Morel, Andrew Zwicker,  and John Greene.  Absent:  Marten Kruysse and Aaron Cosbey. Public  Input Period:  Sean Miller, President of Trail Stingrays, a swimming club with a number of...

A year ago, Nelsonites were paying under a buck for a regular liter of gas. But while Nelson drivers wait for that elusive dip below a dollar, owners in the surrounding West Kootenay are cheering prices as much seven cents below the buck mark. So why the discrepancy in price from say, Centex outside Salmo — 92.9 — to Chevron...

By David Suzuki With the December Paris climate agreement, leaders and experts from around the world showed they overwhelmingly accept that human-caused climate change is real and, because the world has continued to increase fossil fuel use, the need to curb and reduce emissions is urgent. In light of this, I don’t get the ...

Wait, what's ThoughtExchange? Rossland-based ThoughtExchange  makes use of technology for what we might call "crowdthinking."  It has created a system for sharing information and eliciting thoughts and ideas from any  number of people, from 5 to 50,0000, and allowing them to respond to each other's thoughts,  ideas and points...

The Trail RCMP want the public to be aware of a prolific phone scam currently targeting residents of Trail, Rossland, and the surrounding areas. People are receiving phone calls from a male claiming to be "Shawn White from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)"  who threatens police or court action unless the resident calls a 1-900...

Anaheim Ducks forward (and former Castlegar Rebel) Shawn Horcoff has been suspended for 20 games, without pay, for violating the terms of the NHL/NHLPA Performance Enhancing Substances Program. Under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the suspension is accompanied by mandatory referral to the NHL/NHLPA Program for Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health for evaluation […]

A combined Trail/Nelson team will represent the Kootenays when the BC Senior Women’s Curling Championships begin February 15-21 in Richmond. Team Matthews, consisting of skip Marnie Matthews and third Rose Beauchamp of Trail and second Carol Bennettt and lead Cathy McLeod, both of Nelson, recently defeated Heather Nichols of Castlegar to capture the zone berth. […]

RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said in a media release Monday evening a search of a home in Nakusp confirmed that the items found in the home were explosives. "At around 7:30 p.m. Monday evening, the Nakusp RCMP released the scene of their investigation at a local mobile home park," Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said. "The BC RCMP Explosives...

Food from "away": It's becoming common knowledge that most of the food we eat here in BC comes from other places:  rice from Asia or California, oranges and orange juice from Florida, Texas or California, vegetables and almonds mostly from California, wheat and other grains from the prairies,  and convenience foods -- prepared...

Will Trudeau Take a Neo-Keynesian Approach? Place your bets. Will Justin Trudeau and his economic advisors choose a neo-Keynesian approach to the growing economic disaster facing the country or will it stick to the neo-liberal ideology that has been the stock response of Liberal and Conservative governments for the past 30 ...