Preliminary election results have Arry Dhillon winning the Castlegar council by-election seat by a margin of just 10 votes. Preliminary results are: Arry Dhillon, 692, Cherryl MacLeod, 682, Janna Sylvest, 398 and Tyler Maddocks 72, with 1844 voters and 134 new registrations. “That's just enough that I can feel comfortable –...

The Castlegar Gentleman’s Hockey League is proud to announce Kadrian Klimchuck as the inaugural winner of the CGHL Beauty Award. The award is given to a SHSS Graduate that has played their final season of Castlegar Minor Hockey, has at least a C+/ B average, plans to attend Selkirk College in the fall and submits […]

At a special meeting Friday at 12 p.m., city council unanimously voted in favour of applying for a grant that would help fund an expansion of the West Kootenay Regional Airport. The reason for the urgency and special meeting, according to city CAO John Malcolm, is that applications for the grant, offered by the BC Rural...

We are proud to announce that RED Mountain’s Legacy Training Centre has been designated The National Ski Academy’s ‘Official Western Canadian Training Centre’.  RED Mountain and Rossland are steeped in skiing history, tradition, and culture dating back to the late 1800’s. In 1968 RED hosted the first World Cup race ever held in Canada. The Red […]

The heat could be turned up on taxation in West Kootenay rural areas if recommendations from a firefighter remuneration report are accepted by the regional district board next month. The Regional District of Central Kootenay board of directors is expected to deal with a report compiled by the Central Kootenay Regional Fire Chiefs’ Association that […]

Selkirk College in Nelson will soon be better equipped for training of well-paying middle-class jobs of as a result of a federal and provincial investment of $16.18 million. The investment, which comes in addition to $600,000 in federal funding for the project from Western Economic Diversification Canada, started paying...

The Waneta Expansion Limited Partnership (WELP), a partnership between Fortis Inc., Columbia Power Corporation and Columbia Basin Trust, is accepting applications for the 2017 Waneta Terrestrial Compensation Program (WTCP). This program will provide a total of up to $50,000 to projects in the Waneta area that promote conservation...

Despite the fact a strike or lockout could seriously affect operations, Kootenay Savings Board of Directors and Senior Management Team stand firmly behind the efforts of its negotiating team to bargain a collective agreement with United Steelworkers Union Locals 9705 and 1-405. Kootenay Savings Credit Union President and CEO Brent Tremblay said in a media […]

For the second year in a row, the Stanley Humphries Grad class is taking over the popular event Spooks on Zukes this Thursday. The annual Hallowe'en favourite had been around for roughly 15 years, but then was cancelled several years ago due to issues of vandalism and other concerns, according to Heritage Society manager Deb...

It has been a year since H.O.P.E. Creative Initiatives introduced itself to the Castlegar community, according to coordinator, Shauna Robertson. “We are an art based non-profit social enterprise supported with the services of Castlegar Mental Health and Substance Use,” Robertson said. Members of the H.O.P.E. enterprise are ...