Any signs of optimism expressed with news that FortisBC and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 213 started mediation bargaining to end an already eight-week long lockout Wednesday short-circuited not long thereafter. FortisBC and IBEW Local 213 negotiators returned to the bargaining table in Vancouver...

Rossland is getting its own branch of the Kootenay Carshare Co-op.  The successful non-profit organization already has branches in Nelson, Revelstoke, Kaslo, Fernie, and Kimberley, with Rossland being the latest edition.  The move was spearheaded by the Sustainability Commission’s Energy Taskforce, and received support from...

Nelson Police and Fire Departments were kept busy early Tuesday morning, safely talking down an emotionally distraught woman from on top of the Big Orange Bridge structure. The call, coming in at 1:25 a.m., was one of 75 NPD officers dealt with during the past week. Police received the call when a passing motorist reported […]

The City has made public letters containing correspondence between Berg Lehman, the group that did the 2012 financial audit, and Rossland CAO Cecile Arnott.  Dated June 24, 2013, the letters were not made available to the public until Aug 12, when Council had a chance to discuss them during a public meeting.  Contained in the...

Rossland’s newest educational option, The Seven Summits Centre for Learning, has announced an official physical location: 2393B Columbia Avenue in Rossland, BC. A daycare and Catholic Church educational centre in past incarnations, the space was originally designed with learning in mind with lots of natural light in classroom...

We all spend time as kids imagining how our lives might be when we grow up.  And then we grow up and we find ourselves imagining what might happen if… In business, those daydreams can often turn into guessing games, red herrings and assumptive goose chases.   But with some imagination and calculation, business owners can […]

Police have barricaded off Riverside Drive around the 75 to 77th Street crossroads after they discovered someone was moving dynamite through the area. According to Cpl. Kevin Christensen, the individual transporting the dynamite had “good intentions” and wanted to dispose of it with the help of the local fire department or RCMP RCMP received a […]

A recent increase in whooping cough and measles in our province has a regional Medical Health Officer concerned, and he is reminding parents to make sure their children are immunized so they are not at risk. “The West Kootenays have had a surge of whooping cough cases in children over the last few weeks, following […]

As the lockout of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 213 by FortisBC drags into its eighth week, Slocan Valley Co-op General Manager Chris Sapriken will be happy to hear that rumours of the two sides using mediation to settle this agreement are true. FortisBC negotiators and members of the IBEW Local 213 ...

I came across a little snippet of local Rossland legend recently that bears being told. I’ve been writing about some of the history surrounding our Seven Summits recently and have already told the stories of the Met Men of Old Glory and the man after whom Mount Plewman is named. In this article, we head off once more to Mount...