The CBC is reporting the Regional District of Central Kootenay paid $600,000 more for the HB Mine site near Salmo than the previous owners. Documents obtained by CBC show in the summer of 1997 a company from Panama called Seattle Corporation purchased the land for $149,000 and sold it to the RDCK a few months […]

A Red Deer woman started her party early, 8 a.m. MDT, before being arrested Thursday (August 2) in the parking lot of the A&W restaurant in Nelson. At 5:25 p.m., Nelson Police received a report of a suspected impaired driver in the lot of the A&W. Officers arrived to find 55-year-old female Alberta resident displaying […]

The Fructova School isn’t just part of the past to Anne and Cecil Plotnikoff of Grand Forks. It is also part of the future for the generations of Doukhobor children to come. The school, which was opened from 1929 to 1949, was meant to teach Doukhobor children how to speak, read and write English. What […]

Nelson Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance after a lower Fairview resident ended up in Trail Hospital following a brutal assault by known attackers. Approximately 10:15 p.m. (Thursday) July 26, a man heard the sound of breaking glass near the rear door of his house. When the man investigated the commotion he was […]

MP Alex Atamanenko and his wife Ann joined more than 20 Rosslanders for a potluck on Tuesday evening to discuss Canada under the current Conservative leadership and the strategies concerned Canadians can use to turn our nation in a different (i.e. better, brighter) direction. Andy Morel's house was abuzz with moose burgers,...

After a potluck dinner at Andy Morel's house in Rossland on Tuesday—and after the diners had each expressed their concerns about the current Conservative leadership in Ottawa and Canada's lurch to the right—MP Alex Atamanenko offered some of his observations and experiences. "Thanks for all the food!" Atamanenko began, before...

Big stacks of large black lego—or so it looked—were installed last week along the south side of Columbia. The multifunctional blocks are "Stratacells" as assistant city planner Stacey Lightbourne explained. "I'm not the expert," she began, deferring to ISL engineers and landscape architects for the details, "but it's a fairly...

I have to admit, as the hot, humid summer days stretch out before us, I can’t seem to get myself worked into a lather over anything much more controversial than whether or not to put hard-boiled eggs in the potato salad for camping (I asked my Facebook friends and, 51 comments later, the consensus seems […]

Our report last week on “Li’l Cinnamon”—the black bear runt who’d learned to forage in human property and so was caught and killed by conservation officers—generated a lot of interesting discussion. Les Anderson’s comments struck a particularly harmonious chord for me: “Humans have no understanding of wild animals whatsoever,” he wrote, “so they turn to […]

Bookending three blocks of downtown Rossland, two massive brick and stone buildings, the courthouse and the edifice that once housed the Bank of Montreal, stand like sentinels on Columbia Avenue, having survived over a hundred years of drama, history, and devastating fires. The courthouse, on higher ground, commands a grand...