Through his lectures, Chris Hedges takes people on dark journeys to places they thought they would never go. Painting pictures with words, he acts as a tour guide to the realities of war and those who choose to accompany him will return with a better understanding. On February 28, the Selkirk College Mir Centre for Peace...

Ed. Note: This letter is in response to a variety of comments on The Source's Facebook page regarding the closure of Kootenay Savings Credit Union's downtown branch. Dear Editor: The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Oh, nope, sorry ... just a local Credit Union changing its service model. Inconvenient? Yes. End of the...

Grand Forks RCMP Staff Sgt. Jim Harrison was the first presenter at Tuesday’s committee of the whole meeting, Feb. 11. Harrison came before Grand Forks city council to give his annual report and brought the good news that crime is down in the Kootenay Boundary. “This was another successful year in policing, quite frankly. Our...

Grand Forks has a new resident author. Jean Lloyd moved to the area last fall and is selling her book “Little Bird” at the gallery 2, Pedallers' Place and the Christina Lake Living Arts Centre. Lloyd wrote the book when she was living in Fernie, but it is based around Trail, where she grew up. “It was really a personal thing...

The next Federal Election is still months away, but already the parties are busy sourcing out candidates to fill ridings. In the new South Okanagan – West Kootenay federal riding that covers much of the rural area outside Nelson — a second candidate has stepped forward to seek the nomination for the NDP. Richard “Dick” Cannings...

Castlegar city councillor and downtown business owner Florio Vassilakakis is calling for more tax-based incentives to draw businesses to the downtown core, after Kootenay Savings Credit Union announced, this week, plans to close its downtown branch. “I understand there are business decisions to make, but it's a disappointment...

Kootenay Savings Credit Union will be closing its downtown Castlegar branch in early May, but leaving ATM and night deposit services at that location, according to vice-president of Marketing Dario Cescon. Cescon said they'll be consolidating their services at their new Crossroads branch, which opened in September 2011. “We...

Castlegar's 17-day push to become Kraft Hockeyville 2014 is over, netting 461 nominations and 589 uploads to the Kraft website – and now the waiting begins. City councillor Dan Rye said the first round of winners will be announced on March 8 during Hockey Night in Canada, and will include eight winners from Western Canada and...

By Everette Surgenor Proponents of broadband networks and services believe that they can have a positive impact on economic development, education, health and social services and, eventually, on the way people interact with their government as well as voting. The primary mandate of the Castlegar Broadband Committee at this ...

As B.C. MLAs prepare to return to the legislature tomorrow, IntegrityBC is today launching an online consultation on electoral and democratic reform. It's the first in a series of consultations that the organization plans as part of its Reimagine B.C. campaign. Reimagine B.C. is a chance for British Columbians to work online...