A large crowd gathered Thursday at the Prestige Inn Lakeside Resort in warm and intimate settings to listen to Kootenay Columbia candidates from the four major parties explain their positions on topics ranging from municipal infrastructure to the youth vote at the Nelson Chamber of Commerce Debate. Host Glenn Hicks allowed ...

There’s a casting call out for Castlegar residents, for a feature film located right here in our town. Kris Woznesensky, of Kara and Kris Casting, says they have bit parts for actors of all ages, sizes and ethnicities, to film alongside Glee star Dianna Agron in a movie called Hollow in the Land. “It’s very exciting,” he said....

Trail's Kidney Walk is all set for this Sunday at 9 a.m. at Gyro Park. Over 500 people in BC are currently on the waitlist for a life-saving organ transplant, and almost 400 of those are waiting for a kidney. Thousands more are on dialysis and may also need a transplant. Sadly, many of these patients will die waiting. That’s...

The man involved in a string of robberies that terrorized financial institutions and the public throughout the West Kootenay in spring of 2014 was handed a 10-year jail sentence by judge Richard Hewson Wednesday morning in Provincial Court. A clean-shaven Andrew Stevenson stood silent in the prisoner’s box with defence lawyer...

If you only leave the house once this weekend, make sure it’s to enjoy the region’s premiere autumn extravaganza, with exciting new attractions to mark its 20th year wowing locals and tourists alike. The Pass Creek Fall Fair is absolutely a celebration of agriculture, animal husbandry and food production – but it’s so, so...

Despite its renown as a marijuana hotbed, the West Kootenay has largely avoided the ugly spectre of crystal methamphetamine – until recently. Three arrests Friday (see https://castlegarsource.com/news/crystal-meth-arrests-outside-rosslandtrail-39243#.VgBFBH3W48A ) have police on high alert against one of the most destructive...

Effective noon (Pacific time) Friday, Sept. 18, Category 2 open fires will be permitted within the Arrow and Kootenay Lake Fire Zones of the Southeast Fire Centre due to a decreased risk of wildfires. Category 2 fires are fires that burn material in piles smaller than two metres high and three metres wide, or stubble or grass...

The Valhalla Wilderness Society (VWS) is calling for an independent review of two maternity penning projects for BC’s endangered mountain caribou, after seven caribou died in the pens this summer. According to a press release from the VWS, “One adult cow and four newborn calves died in a pen near Revelstoke; and in a similar...

A new student information system is causing issues at L.V. Rogers Secondary School, leaving some students with unwanted gaps in their timetables. Some students at L.V. Rogers in Nelson and Prince Charles Secondary School in Creston are finding out the hard way that there just aren’t enough teachers available for the number ...

Take Back the night is an international annual event which is locally organized by Castlegar’s Violence Against Women in Relationships (VAWIR) committee. This is a community march in support of women’s and children’s safety.  Everyone in the community is encouraged to join. The march began in the early 1970s in Europe as a ...