In 1989, I did a radio series for CBC called It’s a Matter of Survival. It examined how humans were altering the environment in detrimental ways, including heating the planet by burning massive amounts of coal, oil and gas for power and transportation. Listeners were so concerned that 17,000 sent in letters (this was pre-email...

Rossland’s library -- well-loved and well-used;  Residents rising against an open-pit mine proposal;  Short-term rental zoning questions;  a resolution on child care;  the latest RDKB report;  and more . . . PRESENT: Mayor Andy Morel and Councillors Jeff Weaver, Stewart Spooner, Lisa Kwiatkowski,...

Rossland’s Public Works department put on an entertaining and educational day for Grade Four classes in Rossland on Thursday, June 15, and the kids loved it.  They had an opportunity to suggest names for the snowplow pictured above; they got to play with a heavy-duty leaf (and whatever else gets in its way) blower,...

By Alex Hemingway As the housing crisis continues apace, the BC government is moving ahead with implementation of the Housing Supply Act, passed in November. This is good news because the housing shortage in this province is as severe as ever. Ultra-low vacancy rates have taken hold in the province’s most expensive regions ...

iF3 Mountain Biking 2023 and Rossland Mountain Film Festival are thrilled to announce "Wheels 'N Reels," an action-packed event celebrating the exhilarating world of mountain biking films. Taking place on June 23rd and 24th, 2023, in the picturesque town of Rossland, British Columbia, this event will showcase captivating...

Building a stronger healthcare system for people is one of our top priorities as a government. Over the past few weeks, we’ve announced a number of important new initiatives to make healthcare more efficient and effective. Your local pharmacist can now assess and prescribe medication for 21 common ailments, like pink eye,...

The Southeast Fire Centre said that effective at noon (PDT) on Friday, June 16, 2023, Category 2 open burning prohibition will be rescinded throughout the region’s jurisdiction. The Southeast Fire Centre said this is due to decreased wildfire risk with the following activities will once again be permitted throughout the region, which extends from the […]

On Friday, June 9, 2023, at 3:15 p.m. an off-duty Trail and Greater District RCMP officer spotted a 41-year-old Trail man with over a dozen alleged outstanding criminal charges seated inside a parked vehicle located in the 1600 block of Marcolin Drive, in Trail. According to Trail RCMP Sgt. Mike Wicentowich said officers have...

Name the Plow contest!  Appropriating City property isn’t cool;  check out the Museum Open House event; Curling Society gets a longer-term lease;  Rotary’s “Run for  the Rest of Us” event;  Annual Report now available;  that WHY mining proposal and the City’s response; and more. PRESENT:  Mayor Andy Morel and Councillors Jeff...

Doing Good, Becoming Better, Following Leaders “I’ve lived my life at the exact half-way point between joy and rage, gratitude and dismay… I would think well of us if I’d never read a history book. Or read a newspaper. Or the comments sections of the Internet… “Is the world more terrible than beautiful? More beautiful than ...