The Wildfire Management Branch is deploying six additional Initial Attack Crews from around the province to help suppress multiple lightning-caused wildfires in the Southeast Fire Centre. All but one of the 47 active wildfires in the Southeast Fire Centre were caused by lightning. The majority of them are small, spot-sized ...

Interior Heath today issued a release answering frequently-asked questions: Q: Why did Interior Health lift the Do Not Use water orders? A: Interior Health’s Medical Health Officer lifted the orders after careful review of the testing that was done on each section of the Kootenay and Slocan rivers by the consultants handling...

The Kootenay Community Bat Project (KCBP) has received numerous calls from residents of the area who have found a bat on the ground, had a bat fly into the house, or have a bat roosting in an unusual location. “This is the time of year when the juvenile bats are learning to fly and their not very good at it” says Juliet Craig,...

Rossland’s Rubberhead Bike Festival returns in early September for another round of heart-pumping, high-flying, and mettle-testing events.  The festival takes place over two weekends in September and caters to all ages, backgrounds, and skill-levels.  This will be the fifth year of the festival, as it is now organized, but ...

What are we to do with, to, or about our Senate? Was it meant to be a chamber of sober second thought or a retirement home for political hamsters? Recent revelations about senators cashing in on the strength of what may, at best, be considered sloppy financial administration, have renewed calls to reform the Senate or to...

The year's Shambhala festival brought with it the usual dog's breakfast of drugs, alcohol, mental health and nuisance calls, according to RCMP Cpl. Riordan Bellman. "The Salmo Detachment responded to over 40 calls of service relating to the festival," he said. "There were 14 prisoners, and one had to be taken to hospital as...

A woman has died in Winlaw after an accident last night, according to West Kootenay Traffic Services Cpl. John Ferguson.   "On Aug. 14 at 11:08 p.m. the Slocan RCMP and the West Kootenay Traffic Services attended the 5900 block of Highway 6, Winlaw on a pedestrian fatality," Ferguson said.   "Investigation has revealed that...

To Whom it may concern. The Winlaw Fire Department is a volunteer group that has come together to help their community in the event of an emergency. We were recently asked by the Regional Fire Chief to provide traffic control for a nonemergency community event, I refused. Disciplinary action has now being taken against me for...

Despite the Interior Health Authority's all-clear for water use in the Slocan Valley, they are urging residents to use discretion in deciding what is, and is not, safe and to avoid any water with visible or detectable deposits of jet fuel. Dr. Andrew Larder, senior medical health officer with IHA, said lifting the Do Not Use...

Ed Note: The Source just got word that the Resiliency Centre will now be open until Aug. 23. "We want to apologize to residents for any hardship that this incident may have caused," says Wayne Smook, senior vice president, airport services for Executive Flight Centre, "and we want to assure that Executive Flight Centre is...