City and Selkirk College Completing FireSmart Vegetation Management
The City of Castlegar, in partnership with the Selkirk College Forestry Program, is conducting FireSmart vegetation management activities on City-owned forested land at 14 Avenue and 26 Street. This area is near the Waterline Road and adjacent to the Kinnaird Park Community Church and is an ongoing project started in 2019. ...
$2 billion to support thousands of new homes for middle-income families
The Province is providing an additional $2 billion in development financing through B.C.’s HousingHub to finance the construction of thousands of new homes for middle-income families. “For too long, hard-working middle-income families have been priced out of the housing market, and the pandemic pushed prices even higher,”...
Improvements, new equipment and more spaces coming to over 80 facilities in Basin communities
Families in the Columbia Basin will soon have more child care options, and children will have better and safer places where they can play, build new skills, grow their imaginations and run about as they develop their bodies and minds. That’s because over 80 child care facilities in about two dozen communities are adding to ...
Editorial: About that elderly Rossland couple and their COVID-19 fine
Readers will have seen a news item about a couple who crossed the border after getting medical services in the United States, and were accused of not following required procedures, and were issued a fine for $3,450 for their “non-compliance.” But there is much more to that story, and readers should know what really happened...
Castlegar, Pitch-in & Clean-up the City
The City of Castlegar is inviting the community to help clean-up the City April 18-26 as part of 2021 PITCH-IN week. This is the 54th annual PITCH-IN community clean-up across Canada. In 2020, over 1 million Canadians participated in the program, cleaning up over 5 million pounds of litter. PITCH-IN is the largest environmental...
100K to secure 100-year future for Iconic Rossland Church: Community Spirit required!
For the last eight months, St Andrew’s United Church in Rossland has been undergoing major development works as part of a $344,000 renovation project funded by a Built Heritage Columbia Basin Trust grant. Having been unsuccessful in its latest grant bid to finish off the works, it is calling on its community to dig deep and...
Crash near Sicamous claims two lives
A two-vehicle head-on collision on Highway 1 seven kilometers east of Sicamous has claimed two lives, according to BC Highway Patrol Sgt. Chad Badry. "On April 6, 2021, just after 1 p.m., BC RCMP frontline members from Sicamous Detachment and RCMP Traffic Services responded to a report of a serious two vehicle head-on collision...
Prescribed burn near Slocan, within Ponderosa FSR area
The BC Wildfire Service will be supporting the Slocan Integral Forestry Cooperative, in conducting a prescribed burn covering up to 150-hectares within the Ponderosa FSR area to help reduce wildfire threats and restore ecosystem health and resiliency. The burn site is about eight kilometres south of Slocan and ten kilometres...
BC Search and Rescue crews face busiest year in history as province copes with Covid-19
British Columbia’s ground search and rescue (GSAR) groups have just wrapped up the busiest year in B.C. GSAR history. As COVID-19 restrictions pushed people to explore outdoors, it also drew GSAR groups out to a record number of requests to assist the public. “Our search and rescue volunteers in B.C. are world class, and...
Weekly Columbia Avenue Update
Over the last week, construction has continued to progress quickly, and they are nearly finished in the area between 18th and 21st and will soon start working in the zone between 21st and 24th. In the next week, you will expect to see: No work over the long weekend. The construction area is getting cleaned and trench patches...
