Grand Forks residents flocked to the scene of billowing black smoke engulfing a house located at the end of 19 Street on Johnson Flats Saturday morning. Although it appears as if the firefighters are not too interested in stopping the fire, incoming fire chief Dale Heriot said the whole event is an exercise. Owners of […]

ELDORET, 23 November 2011 (IRIN) - The switch by many farmers in Kenya's Rift Valley province from staple cereals to more profitable coffee is likely to increase the country's dependence on grain imports and possibly affect food security, agricultural experts have warned."It is unsafe to use our land for crops with the hopes...

Occupy Nelson will assert homelessness one of its key priorities at the Housing For All: Voices From The Street rally Friday. The rally is in response to a meeting with Mayor John Dooley, members of City council, ANKORS and the Nelson Committee on Homelessness, where Occupy Nelson proposed the creation of a safe-space for the […]

BC Hydro’s plan to reduce the rate increases it is seeking from customers over the next three years will involve 700 job cuts and depends on improved electricity markets to deliver higher revenue from its trading division, the utility revealed Thursday, the Vancouver Province’s Derrick Penner reports. The utility filed its amended application for rate […]

A letter expressing upset to city council penned by the president of the Castlegar Rebels, Jim Craig, has proved to be the catalyst for a good news story, in which everyone walked away happy.  Craig said in a letter included in Monday night’s council meeting that the Rebels rely on their community bingo nights for […]

RCMP regained possession of camera cards containing images from sensitive police files from a surveillance gone wrong.   Staff Sgt. Dan Seibel, operations NCO for the Kootenay Boundary Regional RCMP Detachment, said that he retrieved the government property earlier this week from Dion Nordick, known as Buck Addams, through his lawyer.    “Since this incident […]

Monday night saw an unusually emotional city council meeting, as the five re-elected incumbents said their good-byes to councillor Kirk Duff. Duff was the only incumbent seeking re-election who lost his seat, and this by a mere 41 votes.  The loss means an end to, or at least a pause in, a 20-year career in […]

The regional district is taking some issue with the new waste transfer station site in Nelson, and will be trying to get restrictions placed on the types of waste management activities the site can undertake. Regional District of Central Kootenay’s (RDCK) Central Resource Recovery Committee has recommended the board of directors ask staff to pursue […]

After many months of research, interviews and discussion, the much anticipated first step towards what will hopefully become a regional food system alliance for the West Kootenay is now complete. In April of this year, funding and support was secured to carry out research into organizations in Canada and the United States which are seeking […]

The amazingly resilient Occupy phenomenon is running up against the same ugly reality that so many social movements have encountered over the past 20 years: There is a world of difference between influence and power.  Governments and the corporations they serve have power — that is, the power of money (and the law) to make ...