An anticipated large crowd at this week’s regular city council meeting in support of the scheduled OCP and zoning amendment for the proposed dance studio in the Jehovah’s Witness hall never materialized. Those who showed up to support the project learned on arrival that the zoning and OCP amendment application had been dropped...

If you find yourself at loose ends one evening this summer, walk downtown and count the empty store fronts. You might need more than the fingers on your two hands, so bring a friend or family member along. After several years the old Bank of Montreal building is still for sale; the old Garage and Gypsy locations are empty; ...

Rossland's Visions for Small Schools Society is currently working hard on options to serve their mandate to sustain excellent K-12 education here in the Mountain Kingdom. This week the group has given permission for the Telegraph to publish a working draft of a document designed to outline goals, strategies, and action plans...

July 4th may soon take on a new meaning in Rossland, as the day that the Rossland Foodies got their independence and opened a new farmers' market in town. While there won’t likely be fireworks, waving of the stars and stripes and parades down main street there very likely will be an explosion of fresh fruit and vegetables, ...

Imagine waking up early on a sunny winter’s morning, a fresh 15 centimetres of Kootenay powder on the ground. A perfect day to head up to Red and make some turns. Putting your boots on in the comfort and warmth of your house and strolling either down, up, or across the hill to Columbia Avenue you breeze right past your...

The broken down Regional Recreation agreement has reared its head again this week, and this time it would seem the citizens and businesses of Trail and Rossland are the ones losing out. Stemming from a May 1st letter sent from Rossland Mayor Greg Granstrom to Trail’s Mayor Dieter Boggs inviting the City of Trail to participate...

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is part of the BC Poverty Reduction Committee, which has been steadily gathering steam as we get closer to the election. There are now 281 organizations signed on to the open letter to BC political parties. The campaign has been calling for all the parties to agree to implement...

In an ambitious eight page agenda for this week’s city council meeting a street corner in Pinewood garnered the most attention. A standing room only crowd (there are only seats for about ten people in the gallery) gathered, largely to hear and comment on a development variance permit for the Evergreen Ridge subdivision.   The...

Teck may be on the hook for millions of dollars for the large spill of lead and hydrofluoric acid from its Trail plant into the Columbia River in the spring of 2008. The spill, which occurred at approximately 5:30 PM on May 28th, 2008, was attributed to a heat exchanger in the lead refinery which failed, allowing electrolyte...

A Happy New Year from the Telegraph to you and yours. For the last week it seems as though Rossland has been shut down; we've scrambled over snowy hill and icy dale searching for news, but news seems to have gone skiing. We found a couple of parties, but nothing anyone would appreciate being featured on the front page of the...