The Recreation Department and Art Instructor Shelley Painter are running Spring Break Art Camps to help keep the kids busy and having fun over the Spring Break!  Classes are held in the Arena Lounge from 2:30-4:30pm and each day has a different art theme to look forward to.  This week is the second week of Spring Break and ...

A new sculpture of a bear playing with its cub will soon liven up the sidewalk outside the post office on Columbia Ave. as the Rossland Council for Arts and Culture (RCAC) raise the final funds necessary to put artist John McKinnon on the task. "It's been a long time coming," said RCAC president Renate Fleming. "It's been our...

If you want to make a difference in the fight against cancer, the Canadian Cancer Society needs you! With Daffodil Month just around the corner, Door to Door canvassers are needed this April to help the Society raise funds for the best in cancer research, prevention and support programs. Volunteering is a great way to give ...

This past weekend brought to an end the Nancy Greene Ski League's 2012/2013 season. The final Nancy Greene race, at Phoenix Mountain, saw U10 athletes get individual results for the first time this season.  Chase Eagleton swept the U10 boys while Emelia Hoffman swept the U10 girls.  Iman Livingstone and  Finlay Kinghorn, also...

Post-boom Rossland heralded in a quieter, less hurly-burly time for the Mountain Kingdom. Gold production was lessening; after years of gold being relatively close to the surface, as mining continued, tunnels had to get longer and go deeper, upping the cost of production with less output. Copper became an important commodity...

The Spring Brochure has gone to print and will be available in the mailboxes, by the third week of March.  If you would like to view it online, please log onto www.rossland.ca, City Hall, Rossland Recreation, Program Guide.  The online version of the Brochure will be available by Thursday, March 14.  Registration for programs...

The owner of a pair of dogs that mauled a cat in Rossland has been issued a $1000 fine and risks having his dogs labeled “dangerous” if another incident occurs, a distinction that comes with strict limitations to the dogs. A separate attack was also reported, but the owner, Dr. Roland Proctor, denies the second occurrence and...

The "Rattlecat Shred Posse" dug into Red Mountain last weekend for the hill's first-ever banked slalom snowboard event, sending 110 riders in timed runs down 35 steep corners carved into the gully on rider's left of the Face of Red. "It was a great time," said co-organizer Scott Reynolds who we caught up to at the Snowboard...

In my personal affairs these days there's been a real Spring climax of amazing new life. With luck, six of my eight does will have kids in a month or two. (The owner of the buck I borrowed this winter assured me of Bradley's vital mojo, but we'll see!) The chickens are laying again after a winter molt, the baby bunnies have...

Rossland’s new animal control bylaw blitzed through first, second, and third reading on Monday evening. Neither the press nor the mayor were present for the committee-of-the-whole meeting (COW) in which the new version of the animal bylaw was discussed—these meetings are open and advertised to the public—but the major change...