A leaked government document about the future of Canada’s border crossings — including possible closure, reduced hours, sharing of facilities and remote monitoring —  lists Midway, Cascade, Nelway and Chopaka crossings.   The document, “Small Port Working Group – Initial Results and Paths Forward”, was done collectively between Canada’s Customs and Border Services Agency(CBSA) and […]

By Nicholas Kuznetz in ProPublica.Early last year, deep in the forests of northern British Columbia, workers for Apache Corp. performed what the company proclaimed was the biggest hydraulic fracturing operation ever.  The project used 259 million gallons of water and 50,000 tons of sand to frack 16 gas wells side by side. It...

Armenian and Greek priests have once again clashed, but this time at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, much to the astonishment and amusement of social media users worldwide. Apparently stemming from a dispute over which priests would clean which part of the church, such brawls are nothing new.  In November 2008, for...

It’s that time of year again. The re-set button moment of annual living. When some of us, or most of us, focus on creating change. At least for next week. There are times, of course, when we really do break with the way things have become. When we refuse to tolerate the way things are. […]

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of three articles by Nelle Maxey examining the wide-ranging ramifications for the Canadian public, economy and environment of the new Canada-US Border Security Deal and its ancillary agreements. With my first article on this topic I set the background for Canada's new trade deal with the US...

Selkirk College’s Recycling Department is celebrating 20 years of making the college a greener place to work.Established in 1991, the Recycling Department is run by the Kootenay Society for Community Living, a regional organization that provides support services for a range of people in communities throughout the Kootenays.When...

It was quite a season of sports in the Kootenay/Boundary region. From the three West Kootenay Cities — Trail, Nelson and Castlegar — rolling out the red carpet to host thousands of athletes over the age of 55 years at the 2011 B.C. Senior’s Games to roller derby women bouncing each other all over the […]

 It’s been an odd year for The Source, in that this is the first, of our almost three years online, that no story has stood out as the real attention-getter of the 12 months past. Our first year of operation saw a conflict between Castlegar and Celgar, sparking four of the top 10 stories for […]

 I have made and broken dozens of New Year’s resolutions before swearing off them altogether – resolving not to resolve, if you will. Now, I can’t live without them – because I’m no longer an idiot about how and why I make them. For the longest time, I followed popular culture and made resolutions governing […]

The year in review is a long-standing tradition of news media to take a look back on the events of the year that stood out. From our long list of stories published in 2011 come these top stories based on what you, the readers, thought were most important by the number of times the stories […]