Over two hundred athletes traveled to Rossland from across Canada, with representatives from Brazil, and Portugal, and several from the United States.  Team coaches came along, and some family members accompanied young athletes.  Despite early worries about snow depth, there was enough, and skiers reported good conditions. ...

Two Grade 12 students from L.V. Rogers High School in Nelson were hoping to make a change as part of Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s National Conference last month in Ottawa. Alyssa Taburiaux and Linn Murray, both 17, recently returned from Ottawa where they lobbied politicians for effective climate policy. The LVR students were ...

A Syrian refugee family who came to live in Castlegar in mid-October of this year has generated a lot of curiosity in the community. To that end, the Castlegar Refugee Project arranged an interview, in Arabic, to answer some of the most frequently-asked questions. “This is an interview conducted by a young pre-medical student,...

The Sixth Annual Christmas Classic hockey game will be at the Castlegar Community Complex on Dec. 23 from 7 to 9 p.m., and then the after party will be at the Element Night cClub from 10 p.m. to 2 p.m.  The goal of the Christmas Classic Hockey game and after party is to raise funds for the Selkirk Saints Championship Hockey...

Douglas Lowes was ‘playing it forward’ and spreading holiday cheer when he decided to buy a Lotto 6/49 winning ticket. “I was feeling good when I bought the ticket because I had just finished doing some volunteer work and I was dressed up with a Christmas tie and everything,” recalled Lowes. Lowes won $4.9 million on the...

Kootenay Boundary Region, West Kootenay Traffic Services are urging motorists to slow down and use caution. In a media release Monday, Sergeant Chad Badry of the RCMP West Kootenay Traffic Services said police have been very busy lately dealing with a number of serious crashes and with the today's snowfall, police are even ...

Avalanche control near summit of Kootenay Pass has been completed the DriveBC website said. Kootenay Pass closed for avalanche control DriveBC has issued a road warning for Highway 3 in near the summit of the Kootenay Pass. Snow accumulation during Monday's snowfall warning has forced closure of the Kootenay Pass near the...

Some local residents will be having a very lean Christmas this year if the rest of us don't rally for them, according to Castlegar Harvest Food Bank manager Deb McIntosh. She said it's been a particularly lean year, especially without the CP Rail Holiday Train making tracks here in 2016. That doesn't make for less need, though...

Monday morning the entire West Kootenay community was shocked to hear the news that a young Nelson girl had died in a two-car accident near Bonnington. Now the community, after coming to grips with this horrific news, is rallying around the family as more than $16,000 has been raised in a GoFundMe campaign. “. . . December ...

Delve into the world of graphic fiction as Selkirk College turns the spotlight on the genre in a course being offered this winter. Once condemned as a dangerous force of moral degradation, comics and graphic novels have come to be recognized as important cultural texts. “I’ve always been interested in popular culture as an ...