Rossland and Kootenay area drivers are no strangers to pot-holes, bumps, fallen rocks, narrow winding roads and all manners of automobile hazards out there. A simple drive down one of the Golden City's aging and cracked up streets can at times induce swearing and mutteing under one's breath while at the same time crossing...

Victoria Day long weekend. The May two-four. The unofficial start of summer. Cottages are opened, tent trailers are pulled out and RV’s take to the highway. It’s really the first great escape of the year for many Canadians; The first chance to truly shed the shackles of hibernation and re-emerge into the outdoors.   A timely...

Amongst the many things RSS can boast about is the fact that the school now has an award-winning teacher-librarian. Nicola Kuhn was recently selected as the winner of the BC teacher-librarian Association’s BC New Teacher-Librarian of the Year Award and was nominated by former long-time RSS teacher-librarian, and current Crowe...

Next Thursday, the Lower Columbia Initiative Corporation (LCIC), in partnership with the Rossland Chamber of Commerce and Rossland’s Sustainability Commission’s Economic Task Force, will be holding an information session at the Prestige Inn, right here in Rossland. Sandy Santori says that the information session is “an...

 It’s been two years since Coco Love Alcorn last spread her love in Rossland, playing at the Old Fire Hall. This week she’s making her long awaited return with a stop in the Golden City to play a show in the Rouge Art Gallery. This Tuesday night Coco Love Alcorn will bring her joyful sounds, new songs and her new family in ...

 If you've had a quick scan of the Telegraph over the last couple of weeks you may have noticed that there has been a background theme that keeps popping up in different forms and different fashions. There seems to be a growing critical mass of awareness, desire and action centred around affordable housing. But there are...

The Rossland Public Library is the place to be this Monday May 16 when acclaimed BC author Caroline Woodward comes to town as part of her book tour of the Kootenays. She’ll be reading from her latest novel, Penny Loves Wade, Wade Loves Penny, which was published last fall by Fernie’s Oolichan Books. The story is described as...

With continued participation from the community and a little bit of luck, by the middle of next week Rossland will have chosen its preferred skate park location. Since the Rossland Skatepark Association’s last meeting in January, the first part of a re-launched site selection process, much work has been done. That first meeting...

One of the advantages of having a retired dad who is into guns is that he enjoys road-tripping hither and yon to all kinds of gun shows. This works well for me because I enjoy the benefits of getting free trips hither and yon where I can do things not associated with gun shows. Take for instance, this past weekend: the biggest...

Rossland’s math minds were some of the sharpest in the field last week as a host of teams brought home medals and memories from the annual School District 20 Math Festival held at Stanley Humphries Elementary last week. Over 340 of the region’s finest young minds from Rossland, Trail and Castlegar competed in the intense team...