The Balfour Ferry Terminal will remain, in Balfour. Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, Todd Stone made the announcement Thursday in a media release on the government website. Stone said in the release the decision came following the close of consultation on the future of the Balfour inland ferry terminal. He added...

There is something hairy about November that will soon be cropping up on the faces of men across the region. The Canadian Cancer Society is challenging men in the Southern Interior to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, in particular prostate and colorectal cancer, by taking part in Grow-vember. The annual health...

To Time Change, or not to Time Change . . . that is the question. The first Sunday of November has been designated as the end of Daylight Savings Time in most places. However, for people wanting to not change at all, there's a resident in Kamloops has started an online petition to stop Daylight Savings Time. Robert Dieno has...

What do you do when your world changes in an instant? Following the tragic news of her husband’s skiing accident which left him a quadriplegic, Invermere’s own Cassy Campbell did what any mom would do: she decided to take her newly purchased hobby-business to the next level all while becoming her family’s primary breadwinner,...

Seven Summits Centre for Learning in Rossland hosted a cross-country running race at BlackJack on October 19, with 80 students participating from over a dozen schools.  There was a 2-kilometre race for elementary students, a 4-kilometre race for junior males, junior females, and  senior females, and a 6-kilometre race for senior males.  The Rossland Telegraph […]

For those of us who thought October had to have been the wettest month since the beginning of time, try again. According to Ron Lakeman, Weather Forecaster for the Southeast Fire Centre in Castlegar October 2016 was by far the "wettest October since local records began in the mid 1960s." "The 207.6 millimetres of rain (no...

On Nov. 1, just after 2 p.m., the Abbotsford Police Department attended a local Senior Secondary School for what was called in as an assault-in-progress. Upon attendance, Abbotsford first responders located a suspect who was being physically restrained by school staff members. This individual was taken into custody by police...

The Castlegar Fire Department received a request this morning shortly before 10 a.m. of a cat trapped in a hole in a concrete wall, according to Fire Chief Gerry Rempel. “Upon arrival it was found with only its head protruding through the six-inch concrete,” Rempel said, adding they tried coating the fur with baby oil, to no...

Meet Jungle, the black lab.  He's a validated Avalanche and Wilderness Search Dog and a volunteer member of the Rossland Search and Rescue (SAR) group.  He and his principal friend and handler, Andy Lewis, are ready and willing to devote their time and energy as a team to find missing people -- even if those people have been...

If the Selkirk College Saints hope to capture a fifth straight British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) title, they will do it with depth. Flowing into the form that has seen the Saints become the gold standard in the league over the last few years, the Selkirk College squad beat the Eastern Washington University...