Forty of the region's finest amateur men's golfers hit this links this past weekend at Redstone for the annual Men's Open Tournament. With the course in sparkling condition some hot shots heated up the autumn like weather. John Dedels of Christina Lake finished up as the low gross champion with a two day score of 147. Chris...

 Word that the Waneta Expansion Project will go ahead is great news for residents of the Kootenays, providing many jobs and a boost to the local economy, but the B.C. Liberals made a bad deal for the long-term health of the region, say New Democrats.  “I’ve been saying for a long time that this project […]

 When Florio Vassilakakis of the Element Night Club called me, upset about a story we ran (Brawl involves 40 to 50 people outside Element Saturday night), my initial response was deep annoyance.   Oh God, I thought, Another prima donna businessman cheesed off at me for doing my job – not because my coverage was […]

 Columbia Power Corporation (CPC) and Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) have reached an agreement in principle with Fortis Inc. (Fortis) to further the advancement of the Waneta Expansion Project. “As the only government MLA for the Kootenays, it is important to me that this project proceeds. The project brings approximately 400 jobs and $200 million in […]

The Boundary is now the dynamite capital of Southern B.C. as local RCMP, looking for a grow op, came across the second house in a week loaded with firearms and explosives. On Sunday Aug. 22, the Grand Forks RCMP executed a search warrant at a residence on  Dupee Road, outside of Christina Lake. Police located 113 plants, inside of […]

Graffiti. Love it or hate it, it's pretty much an inevitable part of life in any town or city. It's nothing new: look at the caves of cavemen...er, cavepeople...they had graffiti too. Granted, it's a little disappointing to see that, often, it appears as though not a lot of technical progress has been made in the last 50 000...

Earlier in August, the City of Rossland approved and issued a tender for two new trail segments linking up the downtown core with Centennial Park and the Mining Museum. This past week, on the same day that the tender was awarded to Alpine Contracting for the construction of the new pedestrian route, yeet another trail project...

 Police have not yet charged anyone, but the investigation continues into a brawl involving as many as 40 or 50 people outside the Element Night Club Saturday night, after a much-publicized “foam party” at the venue. Castlegar RCMP Cpl. Deb Postnikoff said the call came in at about 2:40 a.m.   “I guess this had […]

 Right now, the Tamil people-smugglers are assessing Canada and, the more friendly they discover our shores for their human payload, the more ships bursting with Sri Lankans they will be able to send. It is an outcome that, under current laws, Canada is powerless to avoid. The only alternative is to modify the existing system. […]

I was having a really bad day last week; in fact, it was a bad day in a string of bad days, and what I wanted most was to wallow in a nice bath for the evening and go to bed early with my cat. Instead, someone reminded me that the Follies was ending a week earlier than normal (something I should have known from my visit with...