By Carrie Voysey Honorary diploma awards were handed out by Selkirk College Tuesday and one will be going to the city’s top politician and another to one of its favourite sons. Mayor John Dooley received an Honorary Diploma in Liberal Arts and Sciences in recognition of his consistent support for and collaboration with Selkirk College. […]

With a sold out arena of 800-plus costumed, red and raucous fans the country’s largest roller derby league kicked off the season in style. Before the loud and supportive crowd rocking the Rossland Arena the Gnarlie’s girls put their hard work to the test and bested Salmo’s Babes of Brutality to kick off the season with a...

 All you canine cowboys and cowgirls, rustle up your stray doggies, prized pets and four legged furry family members: it’s time to give them a last makeover and help them study up on their best tricks. Yes, we all know Rossland is a dog-town and the Kootenays a puppy paradise, but the big question still lingers: just whose ...

After a lot of thought and weighing of pros and cons, I decided to write this article - hopefully one in a series - about an issue very close to my heart. Living in a small town such as this one means there is a certain amount of risk in revealing a personal issue to the public, but at the same time, I don’t feel I have a lot...

With City-ordered work on the City Centre Motel not even complete, Castlegar officials are having to undertake remedial action on a second, unrelated property. Council voted, at its regular meeting Monday night, to proceed with remedial action in regard to 3626 14th Ave. “It’s several acres in the Emerald Green subdivision, right next to Grandview […]

Just in time for Easter the Grade 7's at RSS have been working on their own egg-cellent works of fragile art. Finishing up their Pysanky or Ukrainian Easter eggs the group dabbled in the festive style.   The Ukrainian Easter egg art form involves drawing on raw eggs with hot wax before dying the eggs in vibrant colours.  When...

 Anyone who has had the chance to sit through something like this past Monday’s School Board meeting, could never, with any good conscience, vote for a political party that has a history of cutting school funding then gives tax cuts to the wealthy and big corporations of the world. It’s painful to watch committed community ...

Forget the silver bells, and cockle shells, the real story for old contrary Mary, if she were to stop by Rossland this summer, would be ‘how do your giant pumpkins and sunflowers grow?’.  Two-time defending giant pumpkin growing champion Darcee O’Hearn has jumped on board this year to head up the contest to seek out new gourd...

The fact that Rossland is loaded with history, culture and heritage is nothing new. How to use that heritage to the city’s benefit in terms of tourism development, however, is a project that Tourism Rossland, the Rossland Heritage Commission and the Columbia Basin Trust have been working on over the last several years. The ...

If you should happen to have an opportunity to visit the Rouge Gallery this week, you will be greeted by the charming and colourful Animaux Magiques, or Magic Animals, painstakingly created over many months by students at Rossland's Francophone school, L’École des Septs-Sommets. The project was lovingly executed by the grades...