Castlegar City Hall will be temporarily closed daily from noon to 1 p.m. as part of the City’s most recent COVID-19 business continuity planning. On January 4, British Columbia Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry asked businesses to reactivate their COVID-19 safety plans to help prevent business closures given the...

 Effective Jan. 3, 2022, the Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK) will accept grant applications for the Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) Community Initiatives and Affected Areas Program (CIP/AAP). The programs support local projects that provide additional value to Basin communities and that benefit the broad community and...

The Province is working to bring down costs for people in 2022. In the coming year, families will benefit from: expanded $10-a-day child care and reducing average fees by as much 50% by the end of 2022 for children under six free public transit for kids under 12 that will save them as much as $672 in 2022 the biggest rate...

BC Hydro would like to notify the public that the discharge rates from Arrow Lakes Reservoir will decrease noticeably on Saturday, January 1: •At 7:00 a.m., flows will decrease from 2,265 m3/s to 2,124 m3/s. •At 8:00 a.m., flows will decrease from 2,124 m3/s to 1,982 m3/s. •At 9:00 a.m., flows will decrease from 1,982 m3/s ...

Over a three-day period, B.C. is reporting 6,288 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 241,946 cases in the province: Dec. 24-25: 2,552 new cases Dec. 25-26: 2,023 new cases Dec. 26-27: 1,713 new cases Note: case counts provided on Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, are preliminary. The new cases include: 3,181 new cases in Fraser Health...

Teck Trail Operations is proud to commemorate 125 years of continuous smelting with an eight-part series that explores the company’s significant role in the region and industry, from the gold rush to becoming one of the world’s largest fully integrated zinc and lead smelting and refining complexes. Since 1896, visionary...

To all RDCK Recreation Customers:The BC Provincial Health Officer (PHO) today released a revised Gatherings and Events Order with new restrictions that impact people who use RDCK recreation facilities and programs.FITNESS CENTRE CLOSURESFitness centres are closed and fitness classes are suspended effective December 23, 2021...

The Castlegar RCMP is seeking to identify a Secret Santa who sent the RCMP an envelope of cash and a note. On Dec. 20, a non-descript envelope with no return address arrived at the Castlegar RCMP Detachment. It contained an undisclosed amount of cash and instructions to disperse as the RCMP saw fit in the community. While we...

Due to colder temperatures, Castlegar's outdoor community rinks are now open for skating & hockey. The rinks are free to use and located at the back side of Kinnaird Park, 2501 14th Avenue. They are open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day and lit during the evening hours. Please be courteous and limit your skate to 30 minutes...

By order of the British Columbia Provincial Health Officer (PHO), fitness centres at Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK) recreation facilities will be closed as of Wednesday, December 22, 2021, at 11:59pm until January 18, 2022. The PHO ordered these and other new restrictions today in response to the escalating...