Ed. Note: The Source checked with police this morning, Feb. 7, and was told there is no new information regarding this situation. The Castlegar RCMP are asking the public to please be on the look out for an  80-year-old female that is overdue on her travels to Kelowna, BC. Mary Chernoff, a local Castlegar resident, […]

Ed. Note: The Castlegar Source was able to reach the communications director at the Ministry of Transportation (MoT) in regard to this story – but not until roughly an hour before press time. The director was both forthcoming and helpful but, due to the unreasonable timeline we presented him, unable to provide a response before […]

Columbia Basin Trust’s (CBT) Community Initiatives (CIP) and Affected Areas Programs (AAP) are currently accepting applications across the Basin for community-supported projects. The CIP and AAP are CBT’s largest and longest running programs and will provide communities with $3.3 million in 2010. This is the third of a three-year $10 million-commitment by CBT. “As long-standing […]

Castlegar police are asking the public to come forward with any information they might have regarding a home invasion last night. RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew said a man was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after an incident that took place at roughly 10:45 p.m. on Jan. 28, in the 3000 block of Fifth Avenue. “Preliminary investigation […]

Castlegar Mayor Lawrence Chernoff is publicly calling for province-wide tax reform in response to a range of issues facing B.C. municipalities, including Castlegar. Chernoff said the systems by which taxes are collected and distributed were created based on obsolete criteria – what made sense decades, or even centuries, ago does not serve the modern province’s […]

Castlegar police, while encouraging Olympic enthusiasm, are cautioning residents against overdoing it. RCMP Cpl. Mike Mysko, in charge of the city’s new Crime Reduction Unit, had an illustrative example of what not to do while celebrating the Olympic spirit. “(On the evening of Jan. 21), I was working one of our very first evening shifts […]

The following is a press release issued by the provincial government: As B.C. prepares to welcome the world to the 2010 Winter Games, the B.C. Government, Better Business Bureau and Consumer Protection BC are reminding both International visitors and Canadian residents to be careful and do their homework before booking vacation rentals. Online classified advertisements have […]

Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid joined Kootenay-Columbia board of education chair Gordon Smith, parents, caregivers and district staff today at the official opening of the StrongStart BC early learning centre at Robson Community school. “This new StrongStart BC centre in Robson will mean that more children and families can receive support as they build the early […]

The limelight at city council’s first meeting of 2010 was focussed, not on city issues, but on the School District 20 (SD 20) instead. The SD 20 board has been seeking public input on its plans to cope with an anticipated $4-million budget shortfall, due to declining enrolment, in its document Planning for the Future. […]

Youth groups from all across the West Kootenays are sharing their compassion and concern for disaster stricken Haiti by banding together to hold a fundraising event at the Brilliant Cultural Centre on Jan.30 at 7 p.m. Admission is free, but donations will be collected and passed on to the Canadian Red Cross for the Haitian […]