Summer Brochure! The Recreation Department is putting together the Summer Brochure.  If you are interested in running a program or course, or would like more information, please contact our Department to discuss.  If you’re a Community Group and you’d like to advertise a special event happening this summer, please let us...

The 2014 Water and Sewer Parcel Tax Roll and the Red Mountain Specified Area and Ophir Reservoir Local Area Service Parcel Tax Rolls are available for public inspection at the Rossland City Office, 1899 Columbia Avenue, during regular office hours, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.   A person may make a complaint to the...

You are invited to a collaborative evening for local organisations to learn, share and coordinate! Our goal with this event- is to assist non-profit organisations to improve their capacity, increase efficiency, reduce duplication of services and encourage greater collaboration between groups.  Employees, volunteers, directors...

Looking at my yard, I see the dandelions are full force and it reminded me of  the many herbs that clean the liver.  Not many of us think about our livers, but, if you drink coffee/tea/Pop/alcohol or any stimulant this article is for you!  The liver is responsible for over 500 different functions such as detoxifying and...

Scouts Canada is the country’s leading youth organization. For more than 100 years, 17 million Canadian youth experience the outdoors, adventure and friendships.   The Scouts motto is “ Be Prepared “and the  2nd Rossland Scouts is true to that word as they have been involved with many activities in the community, projects and...

We have a large group heading off in various directions from our small city this summer; so large in fact, that we are going to do this story in two parts. In this photo we have from left to right, Bethany Johnson, age 11, who was accepted into the Alberta Ballet Summer School, Professional Division; Charlotte McKay, age 12,...

Nelson Hydro and Columbia Wireless are giving the public unlimited access to life of a local osprey family. A livestreaming webcam has been set up on top of a pole a few feet off Highway 3A west of Nelson with a view of the nest. The nest, home to a mom and dad osprey, is on top of a pole errected by Nelson Hydro in 2013 at...

If anyone thought April was a little cooler than normal, they were right. Ron Lakeman, Weather Forecaster for the Southeast Fire Centre in Castlegar said the recent month was slightly wetter and cooler than a typical April.  “The total amount of precipitation (all rain) was 107 percent of normal, the mean monthly temperature was 0.3 […]

The sentence in the 60-page AGLG report on the City of Rossland to which citizens should pay particular attention to is the second sentence in section 3.1.18 on page 8: “Council did not balance its almost full delegation of procurement decision-making to the chief administrative officer with a requirement for meaningful,...

In his nearly 40 years in Nelson, Mayor John Dooley can recall only a few times when events like the recent robberies and bomb threat have happened in the Queen City – but he’s glad to see that local police know how to handle things when they do. “I can only remember a handful of […]