On Sept. 9, at 6:39 a.m., frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officers, Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue, and EHS responded to an explosion that occurred inside a vehicle parked in the driveway at a residence in the 200 block of 8 Ave. in Montrose. A 41-year-old Montrose man was located inside the vehicle and had...

Effective at 12 noon PDT on Friday, September 2, 2022, campfires will be allowed in the Southeast Fire Centre. The current prohibition against any open fire larger than a campfire (i.e., larger than 0.5 metres wide by 0.5 metres high) remains in effect throughout the Southeast Fire Centre. The following equipment and activities...

This summer we’ve all been feeling the effects of inflation.  The price of almost everything has risen dramatically, but the issue that I’ve been hearing a lot about is the cost of gas. In January, the world oil price was about $70 per barrel, up significantly from its early pandemic lows.  Then in late February, Russia invaded...

People in Trail may have noticed purple chairs dotting our downtown. What are these empty chairs for? What do they mean? Purple is the colour used to recognize the toxic drug supply that is killing people all over the world. The empty chair is there to commemorate loved ones missing from our dinner tables, lost to toxic drugs....

RDCK Recreation facilities at the Castlegar & District Community Complex, the Creston & District Community Complex, and the Nelson & District Community Complex are scheduled for annual maintenance closures in the coming weeks.These closures have been scheduled during the quietest time of the year at the facilities....

BC Hydro would like to notify the public that the discharge rates from Arrow Lakes Reservoir will decrease noticeably on Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28:     •At 6 a.m. on Saturday, August 27, flows will decrease from 2,166 m3/s to 2,024 m3/s; •At 7 a.m. on Saturday, August 27, flows will decrease from 2,024 m3/s ...

When a man violated his court-ordered restrictions, the game was afoot - literally. "On Aug. 20, at 9:42 a.m., a frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officer received a report from a monitoring company that a 33-year-old Trail man had violated his court ordered condition to remain inside his residence on Green Avenue in...

The quiet of summer will soon be broken at Selkirk College with the arrival of students for the fall semester, bringing a new air of post-secondary excitement to campuses and learning centres across the region. President Maggie Matear has been at the helm of the college since late-May. Settling in and getting familiar with ...

A Trail man has been found guilty of three charges and will be facing sentencing in September after assaulting two officers last October, according to Trail RCMP NCO i/c Sgt. Mike Wicentowich. "I attended court in Castlegar on Monday and was present for the decision by Judge Sicotte on the Sheldon Matteucci incident (see below...

Anouschka Riverin, finance manager with the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, will be swapping her calculator for cycling when she takes on the ‘Tour de Cure’ 100-km fundraising bike ride in Chilliwack later this month. Her team, ‘Just Beat it’, hopes to complete the epic, in-person cycling challenge in under five hours...