Following three design charettes hosted by the city’s planning department over the past year, the City has now come back with its report and recommendations. Looking at the stretch of Columbia Avenue between the Miners' Hall and St. Paul Street, the intent is to modify and enhance our downtown's amenity appeal while improving...

 After hearing the perspectives of many of the key players in the latest round of nastiness inspired by School District 20’s (SD 20’s) Planning for the Future document, I can only conclude that the well-being of the entire region is at stake, and in more far-reaching issues than education alone. The angry rhetoric being wantonly […]

Our downtown core’s century-old infrastructure may soon be getting an upgrade and a facelift to the tune of an estimated six million dollar Columbia Avenue rebuild project if the public agrees with the city’s proposed borrowing process. That said, the project, originally slated for 2010, will now likely be bumped to the summer...

Fresh from the stale surroundings of tourist-laden Cancun, Mexico, Sustainability Commission member Aaron Cosbey checked in with the Telegraph this week to bring us up to speed on the environmental side of the local sustainability coin.   While ‘fatigued’ may not be the best descriptor to characterize Cosbey’s post-conference...

In what seems to be becoming a new annual Christmas tradition in town, Rossland City Council has shown its support for a skatepark again this year in its final council meeting before Christmas. In a 3-2 vote, council supported a recommendation to allow the Rossland Skateboard Association (RSA) the use of city photocopying...

In underworld circles, a blackjack is a small, typically leather, sack roughly the size of a small purse or ankle-high sock. Stuffed with ball bearings, small stones or semi-precious stones for the fashionable underling, it’s normally a DIY weapon fashioned in mind of sneaking up behind someone and K.O-ing them with any one...

Oh, sometimes there is nothing better and more Rossland-ish than sitting out on the sidewalk in front of the Sunshine Cafe, enjoying a nice sandwich and a cool drink, chatting with friends and passersby, meeting some convivial dogs - all accompanied by the idyllic soundtrack of DT Chambers and other assorted semis trundling...

Slippery roads are believed to be the main cause of a two-car accident one kilometer west of the Beasley Fire Hall on Highway 3A Sunday afternoon.

 Nelson RCMP said in a press release that a car was rounding the corner when it caught its wheels in slush on the shoulder of the road causing the […]

Avalanche risk is considerable at the alpine and tree-line level in the West Kootenay backcountry, according to the Canadian Avalanche Centre. Heavy snow falling is expected to overload buried weak interfaces in the snow pack in the backcountry, even in sheltered locations, according to James Floyer of the CAC. Up to 40 centimetres of new […]

Aboriginal students at Selkirk College and College of the Rockies will find support and a place to gather once construction is complete on the colleges’ newly announced Aboriginal Gathering Places. The two spaces, valued together at nearly $2.5 million, will be built thanks in part to a $400,000 contribution from Columbia Basin Trust (CBT). “The […]