Htoo Paw grew up in an entirely different reality than her life today on Selkirk College’s Castlegar Campus and she’s determined to ensure young women in Burma are not subjected to a similar plight. With the assistance from the Nelson Refugee Committee, Htoo Paw arrived to the Kootenays in June, 2012 from Burma—also known as...

Rossland Youth Action Network The Youth Action Network is getting going for its 2014 / 2015 season! Mike Kent has lots of great programs and opportunities to roll out this year and the excitement is just starting! If you are a Youth between the ages of 12 and 18 or you have a Youth in that age bracket, please check out the ...

Tourism Rossland, Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism and Whitewater Ski Resort are delighted to announce they are enhancing the Spokane Shuttle service in association with Queen City Shuttles.  For the 2014/2015 ski season the Spokane Airport Shuttle will now be running 7 days a week all winter!  The partners have been working for...

With less than a month until the lights go down and the curtain goes up, the Teck Rossland Mountain Film Festival program is shaping up and promises an exciting variety of local and international films from November 19 - 23. Now in it’s 16th year, this annual celebration of mountain culture in Rossland offers a slew of events...

The Rossland Council for Arts and Culture annual Performance Series continues on Saturday, November 8. There is an updated time and venue for this performance- 4:00pm at the Rossland Art Gallery. Through the Performance Series RCAC aims to continuously present a wide variety of high calibre artists with a variety performing...

Dear editor, Andrew Bennett has guts for submitting an opinion piece on our local government that was harsh and critical. Yes his article was unforgiving, but his article was based on factual events that happened while our current mayor was the leader of our community.   The truth may rub us the wrong way and make us...

In a seasaw battle that saw the lead change hands numerous times in the last couple hours of voting, Rossland's Red Mountain came out on tops over Eaglecrest of Alaska in round two of the Ski Town Throwdown III. The Golden City mountain trailed by as many as a 1,000 votes during the final hours of voting before staging the ...

“Who shall govern the Mountain Kingdom?” said the King, directing his words at the large pile of rocks heaped on what was once a sacred grotto adjacent to the museum. The Oracle of Delphi often visited here to escape the heat of the Grecian summer. Being something of a free spirit a few rocks didn’t bother her. The King had...

At 6:00 pm (Rossland Time) a group of 11 people met in the library's meeting room to discuss the Rossland Society for Environmental Action (RSEA). This new not-for-profit group's function is to facilitate environmental projects by community members, by providing a legal entity to sponsor qualifying projects for Rossland and...

Residents in Rosemont, including one home owner that received a rude awakening a few feet from the door to his house, got a surprise Thursday morning when a medium-sized black bear decided to check out the neighbourhood. Nelson Police dispatch received a call around 7 a.m. from a resident that a bear was prowling around […]