They say confidence is key. So confidence in our region must be paramount to its success. The Lower Columbia Initiatives Corporation is trying to increase just that. The corporation just began a four-month campaign which includes the release of a metric, or fact, in the first week of every month, in the hopes of keeping […]

Three parcels of privately-owned forest land near Rossland, formerly owned by Beaumont Timber, have been sold.  The new owner is a Mr. Behn who is investing his funds in forest and agricultural land, as a less (potentially) lucrative but also less risky, more stable investment than other options. The new manager is Monticola...

Golden riches forged the foundation of Rossland and the surrounding area.  The Rossland Mines produced over 84 Tonnes of gold in their 40 years of operation and explain the origins of the Trail Smelter, the railway links with both Canada and the USA, and West Kootenay Power & Light Company. The financial investment necessary...

BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died after a motor vehicle incident near Winlaw on (Monday) June 23 as Donald James Clark, aged 62, of Winlaw.   Clark was the driver and sole occupant of a pickup truck which was heading southbound on Slocan River Road about 3:30 p.m. on […]

The RCMP and the B.C. Coroners Service are investigating the death of a Grand Forks man on a logging road south of Revelstoke. Mark Douglas Dickson, 33, died at the scene of the accident when his motorbike hit a pickup truck travelling north on Crawford Forestry Service Road Friday (July 4). Crawford Forestry Service Road is...

What started out as a small group of local women gathering for recreation and support has turned into so much more for the Kootenay Rhythm Dragons, who are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their rowing club this month. The Rhythm Dragons started out in 2004 as Nelson’s first dragon boat team, made up of breast […]

Five of the Kootenays’ finest musicians are reuniting this week for concerts in Rossland, Nelson, and Crawford Bay. The Kootenay Brass Quintet – featuring trumpeters Laurel Ralston and Tim Bullen, hornist Arnie Satanove, trombonist Keith Todd, and tubist Robin Clegg – will perform a fun, energetic, and diverse programme of ...

Gold! Pursuit of this precious metal was the economic driver behind the development of our region!  The Golden City was a boomtown - an American and a Canadian railway were extended into Rossland, the Trail smelter was built and the first hydroelectric power in the province was developed on the Kootenay River to supply power...

It’s less than 30 seconds into the opening song and I’m tearing up!  Beautiful harmonies can string up my heart and cause an embarrassing flood of emotion on any given day but really, John Han, the musical director (amongst just about everything else) for the Gold Fever Follies 2014 production OFF THE RAILS! has created...

The Rossland Telegraph recently offered another opportunity for residents of Rossland to gather and discuss another aspect of civic governance;  this time, the topic was how residents and the City could potentially ease and increase lines of communication between our City government and those it exists to represent and serve....