Dear parents and guardians: As you are likely aware, the BC Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) and the BC Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA) have not been able to make significant progress over the summer months and so the possibility of schools opening as usual following Labour Day is uncertain. The Board hopes that the...

Get ready for another round of labour action as British Columbia Teachers' Federation president Jim Iker told teachers Sunday at the annual summer leadership conference rotating pickets going up beginning Vancouver, Langley and Kamloops. The BCTF president announced the picket schedule at the union's summer leadership conference...

The Regional District of Central Kootenay will seek legal advice on how to compel the Nature Trust (TNT) of BC to treat their land in the Lardeau valley for mosquito abatement. The TNT has advised the RDCK verbally that it will not authorize the use of the larvaecide bacillus thuringiensis israelenis (bti) on their land, […]

A CH-146 Griffon helicopter landed and practiced patient transfer operations at the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital in Trail, British Columbia, on August 22, 2014. Four Griffon helicopters are supporting Exercise KOOTENAY COUGAR 2014, a training exercise involving roughly 400 Reserve Force soldiers from 39 Canadian Brigade...

Despite the rains cooler temperatures that have blanketed the Kootenays during the past few weeks, the Southeast Fire Centre want to warn the public that open fires remain prohibited throughout the Fire Centre. The Southeast Fire Centre said in a media release the region receives the least amount of precipitation in the months...

The Castlegar Source is thrilled to once again sponsor the Kootenay’s coolest evening – Raise the Woof! A fundraiser for local animal rescue society KAAP (Kootenay Animal Assistance Program), Raise the Woof is also an incredibly upbeat fundraiser with something for everyone. This is the second annual Raise the Woof, and KAAP...

The Lower Columbia Region is thriving! The most recent economic statistic in a series of published metrics highlighting our thriving economy is the number of non Canadian visitors entering the Lower Columbia region via our local, Paterson and Waneta, borders. From January through May 2014, a whopping 11,800 non Canadian...

The Queen City Cruise had humble beginnings just over a decade in the minds of a few car buffs who wanted to revive the spirit of the muscle car era in the Nelson Area. They took action and started the Nelson Road Kings car club, launched the first Queen City Cruise and the rest, as they say, is history. The club now has over...

Spell lots of words wrong! Use apostrophes when you have no earthly reason to do so! Confuse ‘C’, ‘see’, and ‘sea’! Me saying this may seem dissonant to many who know me. I am a well-recognized grammar Nazi. I once got a death threat beginning with, “To the heretic hoar and her bastard son … ”. I was less offended by the death...

The two sides in the BC Teachers’ dispute have been sitting under a Maxwell-Smart-like "Cone of Silence" for the past two weeks hoping a lack of public rhetoric or media mudslinging would put an end to the strike/lockout that has shut down public schools in the province since June. Wednesday, at the foot of Hall Street, that...