Camera buffs have a few weeks to collect those award winning photos for entry into the West Kootenay Camera Club Photo contest. Deadline for entries is (Saturday) April 23 at 4 p.m. Entries can be submitted to:  Kel Print in Castlegar, Doell Photography in Trail, or Vogue Photography in Nelson.  Photographer Jim Lawrence of...

A trio of regional science enthusiasts are ready to travel to Quebec to represent the region following a successful showing at the West Kootenay Boundary Science Fair Saturday at L.V. Rogers high school in Nelson. Joining Dylan Peil of LVR, who now has qualified three times to attend the Canada-wide Science Fair, are the...

The board of directors of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) has directed staff to close the Reuse Centres at RDKB landfills. The Reuse Centres which have been in place at McKelvey Creek (Trail), Grand Forks and West Boundary (Greenwood) landfills will shut down on April 9th .   “When we introduced the Reuse ...

There was plenty of precipitation, but not much accumulation of snow at the higher elevations said Ron Lakeman, Weather Forecaster for the Southeast Fire Centre in his monthly weather release. "As is typical of a late winter-spring El Nino, March of 2016 was mild and very wet,'' Lakeman said. "The mean monthly temperature was...

Team BC's run at the 2016 Canadian Senior Men’s Curling Championships in Digby, Nova Scotia ended Saturday morning with a 6-5 loss to Bryan Cochrane of Team Ontario during semi final action. Team BC lost a chance to finish in the medals after dropping a 7-5 decision to Alan O'Leary of Team Nova Scotia in the Bronze Medal...

Cranbrook RCMP are looking for a prankster playing April Fool's joke a day early. Key City RCMP received several reports Thursday (March 31) morning from vehicle owners with the wrong license plates on their vehicle. RCMP said it appears that sometime Wednesday night someone played an early April Fool’s prank. Police, trying...

Closing Trafalgar Middle School is just one of the options on the table as the Kootenay Lake  School board floated its final draft plan surrounding the re-configuring use of facilities in District 8. Declining enrolment, extremely high maintenance costs and aging infrastructure were the key issues behind the board’s decision,...

A calamity of errors that plagued Trail first responders today has thankfully ended with no one harmed or injured, according to Trail top cop Sgt. Darren Oelke. Oelke said Search and Rescue had been called out regarding a missing local man (see https://castlegarsource.com/news/updated-missing-trail-person-police-request-public-assistance-41028#.Vvsf3jHW48A...

Darrel Unger was found safe and sound last night, according to Sgt. Oelke of the RCMP detachment in Trail. Earlier Update: A missing person being sought by police is in no way dangerous, according to RCMP Sgt. Darren Oelke. Oelke said the man, Darrell Unger, is being sought purely because an extended absence of this sort is...

Record high temperatures in Western Canada has prompted Avalanche Canada to issue a warning to recreational backcountry users to be ready for increased avalanche hazard. The warning was issued on Avalanche Canada website. Avalanche Canada said the warning applies to all forecast regions, from the Yukon to the US border and ...