The United States military has arrested an intelligence analyst who may have been responsible for leaking classified combat video and documents to the whistle-blower website Wikileaks. The footage was acquired from an undisclosed source in 2009 by Wikileaks. Wikileaks says the “Collateral murder” footage shows the “murder of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists.” The man arrested […]

The ongoing search for 19-year-old Castlegar resident Zach Larsen was called off at roughly 9 p.m. Wednesday due to darkness, but crews will be back and looking again bright and early Thursday morning, which will be Day Five of the search. Volunteers will again be needed to assist with the in-city ground search, which will focus […]

Police are asking residents to handle rumours responsibly as Day Four of the search for 19-year-old Zachary Larsen continues. Helicopters and numerous Search and Rescue water craft searched again yesterday, but found nothing, so a ground search was organized for today, beginning this morning in Millennium Park. Roughly 100 volunteers showed up to help look […]

Police are still searching for a 19-year-old Castlegar man (pictured here) who was last seen in the early morning hours of June 6, after a night out with friends. Castlegar RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew said Zachary Larsen was reported missing Monday morning when he didn’t return home or show up at his job “(He) was believed […]

Springtime has arrived in the Kootenays, and the warm weather has brought with it some welcome return visitors – the hummingbirds.  If you are interested in feeding and attracting hummingbirds to your yard, the following information compiled by the local Hummingbird Monitoring Network will help you achieve that goal. Hummingbirds feed on flower nectar (or sugar-water) for energy and […]

 A large object, possibly an asteroid or a meteor, hit the planet Jupiter Thursday, resulting in a large fireball. The fireball was seen on June 3 at 2031 UTC by two independent amateur astronomers, Christopher Go in the Philippines and Anthony Wesley in Australia. Wesley, who posted the news onto an Internet forum, is known...

Selkirk College’s School of Renewable Resources in Castlegar recently hosted three exchange students from the Universidad Tecnologica de Tulancingo (Tulancingo Technical College) in Mexico.The students, Oswaldo Aviles, Victor Valderrama and Salvador Gonzalez, arrived in Castlegar on May 9 for three weeks to learn about...

by Joaquin SapienA leading East Coast homebuilder learned four years ago that the Chinese-manufactured drywall it had installed in several Florida homes was emitting foul odors, according to documents obtained by ProPublica and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.The company, WCI Communities, was so concerned that it started planning...

Photo: artist’s rendering of the proposed new gaming centre, courtesy the City of Castlegar. The more-than-$6.5-million gaming centre project slated for Castlegar will finally see ground-breaking this month, with a new stakeholder on board. According to Terrim Properties’ Terry Segarty, the project has been stalled out for more than a year due to financing issues. […]

Photo courtesy Kevin Chernoff: Many local passers-by, including city councillor Kevin Chernoff and mayor Lawrence Chernoff, stopped to help clean up thousands of newspapers strewn along Columbia Avenue last Saturday morning. Vandals who created a stunning mess on Columbia Avenue Saturday may have unwittingly created a local community-building exercise in the process. Councillor Kevin Chernoff […]