Trail residents may have heard loud alarms emanating from Teck Cominco’s Trail smelter facility this morning, but Teck spokesman Richard Deane said there’s no cause for alarm. “We had a power outage this morning at roughly 10 a.m., which affected the entire operation,” he said. “When the power goes out, all the the plant automatically […]

John Lee, a travel writer from Vancouver who hosts an online video blog for BC Automobile Association’s publication, Westworld magazine, was roaming Nelson streets this weekend for a new episodeof The Street. “The idea behind the videos and the column that runs in Westworld Magazine is to focus on a cool street somewhere in BC […]

Environment Canada still has a snowfall warning in effect for the West Kootenay area as of 5 a.m. Tuesday. The forecast has snow ending this morning then cloudy with 60 percent chance of rain showers or flurries and accumulations of five centimeters. Tuesday evening there’s a 40 percent chance of rain showers or flurries...

Canadian actress, model, producer, author, activist, and known for her television series roles in Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P. Pamela Anderson is going to be there. So will Mark Ruffalo, Daryl Hannah of Roxanne fame, and Michael Moore. Joining the start-studded list of dignitaries at the Defend Our Coast mass sit-in on Monday in Victoria […]

A Grand Forks youth was found safe after an intensive search lasting nearly six hours last night. On Thursday, Oct. 18 a group of youth were partying at the sand pit in Christina Lake. Just after midnight, a 16-year-old boy got upset, refused a ride home to Grand Forks, then left the party. Friends began […]

Alex Atamanenko, MP (BC Southern Interior) is slamming the Conservative government’s second mammoth Omnibus Budget Bill this year which amends over 40 separate Acts, guts a series of commissions that protect the public interest and concentrates even more power in Ministers’ hands. The BC MP denounced the government’s measures...

By: Rob McLister, Canada Mortgage Trends No one truly knows where interest rates are headed. Yet, despite vast margins of error, all major financial institutions regularly publish rate predictions. If only we could assume that these economists were right - or even half right - it would be far easier to determine the lowest-cost...

The Trail Smoke Eaters have completed a transaction with the Alberni Valley Bulldogs, acquiring goaltender Adam Todd (94) from the Bulldogs for future considerations.   Todd, a native of Courtenay, BC, joins the Smokies after making 2 appearances this season with Alberni Valley. He posted a 1-1 record and 4.92 goals-against...

A comment posted on Facebook has earned the author a conversation with police, according to Castlegar RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew. The comment was in reference to a story posted on the Castlegar Source Facebook page about a Sunflower City man convicted of criminal charges, and openly threatened the man named in the story. Source editor […]

Usually, I’m in line with public opinion, in keeping with the democratic values that drive my very profession. But a recent Ipsos Reid poll conducted on behalf of the Canadian Red Cross just crosses the line for me – away from public opinion and into public hysteria or public stupidity, I can’t decide which. Apparently, about […]