Two Grade 12 students from L.V. Rogers High School in Nelson were hoping to make a change as part of Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s National Conference last month in Ottawa. Alyssa Taburiaux and Linn Murray, both 17, recently returned from Ottawa where they lobbied politicians for effective climate policy. The LVR students were ...

A Syrian refugee family who came to live in Castlegar in mid-October of this year has generated a lot of curiosity in the community. To that end, the Castlegar Refugee Project arranged an interview, in Arabic, to answer some of the most frequently-asked questions. “This is an interview conducted by a young pre-medical student,...

Five people have been sent to hospital after a three-vehicle collision between Castlegar and Trail Monday, according to Trail top cop Sgt. Darren Oelke. He said police responded to a call that came in at 2:53 p.m. “There were two males driving southbound on Highway 22, about two kilometres north of Oasis, when their vehicle...

The Sixth Annual Christmas Classic hockey game will be at the Castlegar Community Complex on Dec. 23 from 7 to 9 p.m., and then the after party will be at the Element Night cClub from 10 p.m. to 2 p.m.  The goal of the Christmas Classic Hockey game and after party is to raise funds for the Selkirk Saints Championship Hockey...

Douglas Lowes was ‘playing it forward’ and spreading holiday cheer when he decided to buy a Lotto 6/49 winning ticket. “I was feeling good when I bought the ticket because I had just finished doing some volunteer work and I was dressed up with a Christmas tie and everything,” recalled Lowes. Lowes won $4.9 million on the...

Kootenay Boundary Region, West Kootenay Traffic Services are urging motorists to slow down and use caution. In a media release Monday, Sergeant Chad Badry of the RCMP West Kootenay Traffic Services said police have been very busy lately dealing with a number of serious crashes and with the today's snowfall, police are even ...

Avalanche control near summit of Kootenay Pass has been completed the DriveBC website said. Kootenay Pass closed for avalanche control DriveBC has issued a road warning for Highway 3 in near the summit of the Kootenay Pass. Snow accumulation during Monday's snowfall warning has forced closure of the Kootenay Pass near the...

West Kootenay Traffic Services Cpl. Phil Mager is reporting another fatality on West Kootenay roads: On Dec. 16 at approximately 3:30 p.m., a southbound, grey, two-door coupe lost control on the compact snow and sand as it was legally passing another vehicle coming down Hwy 3B. The coupe spun around and hit a northbound...

A new scam making the rounds involves people selling pets online, taking the buyer's money, then never sending the animal (if, indeed, there ever was one to begin with), according to RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew. “Castlegar RCMP would like to remind people to be extremely diligent when making purchases online … the varying scams...

Some local residents will be having a very lean Christmas this year if the rest of us don't rally for them, according to Castlegar Harvest Food Bank manager Deb McIntosh. She said it's been a particularly lean year, especially without the CP Rail Holiday Train making tracks here in 2016. That doesn't make for less need, though...