Parents in the West Kootenay/Boundary school districts should make alternate daycare arrangements for next week after BCTF president Jim Iker announced Tuesday teachers will stage a rotating strike May 26-29. Iker said the job action is in response to the threat of rollbacks made last week by government negotiators. “Last...

I am very dismayed that my Bill C-571 did not get quite enough support in Parliament to pass on to Committee stage where it would have received thorough scrutiny and proper debate. I had hoped to follow an example set by the EU to have the same food safety standards, transparency and accountability applied to the horsemeat ...

The first longweekend of what most believe is the start of summer also will see a stronger police presence on the highways throughout the province says the Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure. Minister Todd Stone is asking the public, whether it's a camping trip or a planned family visit, to allow plenty of time and...

Former Nelsonite William Dove was pleased to see Nelson Hydro and Columbia Wireless joined forces to have a camera at the nest of an Kootenay Osprey family just off Highway 3A west of Nelson by Grohman Park. Dove, who got his start as a raptor rehabilitator, educator and falconer when I lived in Nelson about 35 years ago,...

Olympian Clara Hughes will ride into Nelson Saturday, May 24 as part of Clara’s Big Ride for Bell Let’s Talk. Nelson's Kootenay Lake Tourism is doing its best to fill the streets and has created a U-Tube video to help encourage Nelsonites to get out and support Clara's cause. The two-time Olympian Clara Hughes rides into the...

It seems Castlegar has a national celebrity in its midst ... but our rising star is a program, not a person. Castlegar SculptureWalk was featured today in a Globe and Mail story written by Marsha Lederman (click here to read it), whose interest was tweaked by Burnaby-based artist Ron Simmer's What the Nose Knows. SculptureWalk...

The Kootenay region has endured a disproportionate amount of ecological damage due to numerous upper Columbia Basin hydro developments that have generated considerable economic benefits to the province, but also caused significant social and environmental damage to the region. The most recent dam at Revelstoke caused huge...

The investigation continues regarding the death of a Boundary farmer last week, according to the BC Coroners Service. They also released the name of the man who died following a farming accident at a family farm near Beaverdell on May 8, 2014. "He is Larry Dale Hultgren, aged 65," said a press release issued May 13. "Mr....

Selkirk College’s commitment to learners and a high quality post-secondary education experience has taken another step forward with the release of its Education Plan 2014-2018. As a major step in implementing the Selkirk College Strategic Plan 2013-2018, the Education Plan 2014-2018 sets priority actions that will result in...

I begin by citing the conclusions to my own two most-recent columns. I think humans are changing, and so the issues may look very like issues that have been with us over the centuries – but they will be different because we are different. And the main reason for our difference from past humans is our technologies of information....