Interior Health is advising residents in Grand Forks and Boundary of the following updates to local health services resulting from changes to evacuation orders and alerts related to flooding in the region: Boundary Community Health Centre (7441 - 2nd Street) is open. Mental Health Substance Use and Public Health services have...

The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is pleased to name Richard Cannings, MP South Okanagan-West Kootenay as a winner of the  2018 FPAC Forest Community Champion Award. Cannings will be joined by International Trade Minister François-Philippe Champagne, Kenora, Ontario Mayor Dave Canfield, and Whitecourt, Alberta...

Two members of Selkirk College’s Class of 2018 have taken a significant step in their pursuit of becoming doctors after receiving offers of admission from the MD Undergraduate Program at the University of British Columbia. Svetlana Hadikin and Adib Malas graduated from the Rural Pre-Medicine (RPM) Program in April and earlier...

Kootenay Mountain Culture magazine and veteran journalist Bob Keating have landed in some fine company. Keating’s story, "Dammed & Determined," about the future of the Columbia River Treaty, has been nominated for a National Magazine Award in the Feature Writing category. Other nominees in this category include Maclean's, Chatelaine and Alberta Views. The winner will […]

A couple from Saskatchewan, travelling the Kootenay Pass to Nelson for the Victoria Day long weekend is lucky to be alive after being pushed off Highway 3 by a landslide Thursday. Gabe Rosescu and Sheri Niemegeers were en route to the Heritage City to visit friends when the slide hit the vehicle they were driving […]

Evacuation orders were rescinded and downgraded to evacuation alerts for about 1000 properties or about 2000 people in the Boundary on May 20. This leaves 556 addresses on evacuation order and just over 900 people still waiting to return home. In Grand Forks proper, about 377 properties were removed from evacuation zones and...

Nearly 350 people in Grand Forks, Electoral Area D, Christina Lake, Midway and Area E are free to return to their homes or businesses today shortly after rapid damage assessors inspected their properties and rescinded 175 evacuation orders. The majority of properties assessed were in the City of Grand Forks. Several hundred...

Rapid Damage Assessments continue across Boundary. Residents at Christina Lake can now return to their homes where it’s safe to do so. All evacuation orders for Christina Lake have been downgraded to an evacuation alert. This means residents must still be prepared to leave at a moment’s notice if river levels rise to dangerous...

There will be a barbecue tonight (Sunday) at 4 p.m. at the Grand Forks Arena for residents, evacuees and volunteers, thanks in large part to Castlegar’s own Randy Benigen, who also served dinner to hundreds of soldiers at the same location last night. Benigen, 53, works as a boilermaker and has for 28 years, but started smoking...

While many of the stories coming out of the flooding in Grand Forks have been heart-breakingly tragic, many have also been heart-breakingly uplifting, as well – including the one about 10-year-old Logan Engen and his friends.  When Engen and his friends - Greg Hills, Hunter Watson, Daymek Surnak, Ryley Wolfram and Justin Hills...