Two men died in the Columbia Valley Saturday afternoon after their gliders collided while in flight in the Mount Swansea area of Windermere, south of Invermere. The two planes were gliding in the same thermal lift and at one point contacted wings, causing both to loose control and crash into the side of Mount Swansea. This accident […]

It is beginning to feel like fall and plums, apples, pears and other fruit are the bounty of the season.  But fall is also the season when we often see bears in town taking advantage of all the fruit that we make available.  One solution is electric fencing. Bear Aware will be hosting a free […]

Arts and heritage organizations are facing many challenges. Meet those challenges head-on with this upcoming professional development workshop in Nelson, Sept 24 and 25. Presented by Leslie Thompson, this workshop will cover effective board management, volunteer recruitment and management, marketing and fundraising fundamentals for arts and heritage organizations – key elements for sustainability. Travel subsidies […]

Wood stove exchange programs in communities throughout B.C. will share another $200,000 in funding to help more people swap old wood stoves for new high-efficiency models. The Province is providing $200,000 to the BC Lung Association to expand and continue the successful wood stove exchange program. Local governments, non-profit organizations and airshed or air quality management […]

Cattle producers and processors in B.C. will continue to provide consumers with top quality beef thanks to a Government of Canada investment in a shared database traceability system. Member of Parliament Wai Young (Vancouver South), on behalf of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, announced today an investment of over $276,000 to establish the B.C. Carcass Tracking […]

Selkirk College will see 38 new spaces created for those looking to enroll in the health care field this year. An additional 18 health-care assistant spaces — in partnership with College of the Rockies in Grand Forks and Trail — will be created this year, as well as 20 online pharmacy technician bridging program spaces. […]

If you are headed west to the Boundary country or north to the Arrow Lakes region this long weekend don’t take your matches or lighter with you. The tinder dry aspects of those regions — and not much in the way of moisture coming in the next while — means the fire danger in those […]

This morning was a weird one for Trail RCMP, involving sunburns, violence and full-frontal nudity, all in the space of about two hours. Trail RCMP Cpl. Mike Wilson said EMS (ambulance services) got a call at roughly 1:20 a.m., from a man who was in pain from sunburn. Apparently, the man warned dispatchers that the […]

A Castlegar man in his 60s is facing sexual assault charges after a bizarre incident on Columbia Avenue Friday. According to RCMP Cpl. Deb Postnikoff, a 24-year-old woman attended the Castlegar police station Friday at about 5 p.m., reporting that a man she didn’t know had approached and accosted her. “Apparently he invited her to […]

The report of the June 15 Vancouver Stanley Cup Playoff Riot was tabled today by its authors, Douglas J. Keefe, QC and John Furlong, OC, OBC.   Entitled “The Night the City Became a Stadium: Independent Review of the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup Playoffs Riot”, the report and its 53 recommendations are the first comprehensive independent […]