Baseball. The sport of the dog days of summer. Fans looking to watch some of the best youth baseball in the province should take flight to Andy Bilesky Park in Trail for the B.C. Little League Championships. The six-team tournament begins Saturday with the host Trail Allstars up against District 3 rep White Rock at […]

The Southeast Fire Centre (SFC) is urging the public not to be fooled by the soggy weather conditions experienced in the West Kootenay after 28 wildfires were extinguished by firefighters in the region to date. “(The Kootenay Lake, Arrow Lakes fire zone) fire danger is fairly low across most of the Kootenays,” said Patrick Gall, […]

It is with deep regret that The Source reports the death, Friday night, of 73-year-old Wayne Ackerman. He did not regain consciousness after Tuesday’s massive heart attack – but was surrounded by family and friends when he died just before midnight. The family will be holding a celebration of life, and The Source will provide […]

The BC Coroners Service has decided to take a step back and reassess the recovery mission at Johnson Landing said Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe Wednesday during a media scrum at the Kaslo Arena. The decision comes following the second day the search team did not locate any of the two remaining missing bodies from Thursday’s […]

The "Rossland Energy Diet," a unique energy-saving program that brought notable local rewards and has started to draw provincial and national attention, has celebrated great success in “phase one" and will now move into "phase two."A crowd gathered under a large tent beside the Rossland Mountain Market on July 12 to hear the...

The rock band 54-40 is celebrating 30 years of rock and roll, and Nelson’s Capitol Theatre is one of the stops on the anniversary tour. One of the most important popular music groups to emerge from the Canadian cultural landscape is slated to play the Capitol Theatre Friday, September 14 at 7:30 p.m. The band […]

UPDATE: Ashley Patrick Koftinoff, a 37-year-old Castlegar man who suffers from mental illness and was presumed dangerous after failing to return from a one hour pass from Hillside Psychiatric Centre in Kamloops, has been found safe and sound. “He was taken into custody without incident in Invermere,” said Castlegar RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew. Previous story: Police are […]

Some 491 Rossland residents—approximately one-fifth of the voting public—cast ballots in a plebiscite in June that asked if they were in favour of municipal financial contributions to the Trail Aquatic and Leisure Centre (TALC), and whether they actually planned to use TALC. Council had varying opinions on how to interpret ...

The Rossland Skatepark Association (RSA) unveiled their skatepark design to an enthusiastic audience at a public meeting on Monday. Now the RSA has given the go-ahead to design consultant Spectrum Skateparks to make final modifications to the plan and assemble a cost estimate in preparation for the next big push: fundraising....

The sidewalk removal will continue this week, as will the removal of the sub-base.  The material removed from the road is being relocated behind the Credit Union to create more parking spaces and a walkway.    Fortis will be lowering the gas main in Sourdough Alley at Washington St. and Columbia Ave. as well as through the ...