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Old Man Winter makes one last run at West Kootenay

Back by popular demand . . .  Old Man Winter is making another guest appearance in the West Kootenay with an expected 25 centimeters in snow accumulation. “Snow will continue in force over the next 24 hours with accumulations in the valleys of 20 – 25 centimeters and slightly more over Kootenay Pass and all […]

No winners in Friday's Lotto Max, next draw estimated at $50 Million

No one can seem to select the right ticket to win the Lotto Max draw. For another week, no one won the $50-million Friday jackpot in the Lotto Max draw. Twenty MaxMillions prizes of $1-million were available in Friday’s draw, and claims are being made for six of them. Two winning MaxMillions ticket were sold in Nova Scotia,...

Crystal Mountain Resort shutdown by B.C. Safety Authority

The fallout from a chairlift accident Saturday has the small Okanagan Ski Resort, Crystal Mountain, remaining shutdown Sunday as the B.C. Safety Authority conducts tests on the lifts. Saturday,  four people were injured when a chairlift broke and three chairs fell six metres to the ground below. Two men, a teen boy and a woman...

Silver Alert needed in BC

It’s time for B.C. to implement comprehensive measures to help locate and protect missing seniors with dementia, says Selina Robinson, MLA for Coquitlam-Maillardville. On Tuesday, Robinson introduced the Silver Alert Act in the legislature. The bill would create a program which would alert the public of a missing person who...

Municipalities move to four-year term

After the next municipal elections, councils across BC will be in effect for a four-year term instead of the previous three years. This change is being proposed at the current legislative session. It is expected to approved and in effect by November of this year. That means that the next municipal elections will be held […]

Feds under fire for failure to protect Caribou

A February 14 decision in Vancouver Federal Court ruling that the federal government broke the law by not posting recovery plans for four species at risk may help the endangered southern mountain caribou in the Kootenays. The lawsuit, filed by five environmental groups including Wildsight from the East Kootenay, claimed that the federal government broke […]

COMMENT: BC's budgetary sleight of hand

The funny thing about provincial budgets is that sometimes they tell you a lot more about a government's attitude than what the politicians might have intended when they first wrote the document. Case in point: most governments like to pat themselves on the back at budget time by highlighting the impact of their fiscal ...

What is the Soul for? What were you born to do?

“...there’s no myth that holds our culture more firmly in its grip than that you are the result of your parent’s conditioning, just as you are the result of their bodies. That so permeates our thinking that we forget that our "calling" may have a completely different source. The soul may be responsible to a calling that is ...

Proposed Parks Act amendments could open the door for industrial developments in provincial parks

The Valhalla Wilderness Society (VWS) says a new piece of legislation coming down the pipeline from the provincial government would weaken protection of provincial parks and open them up to industrial developments. Introduced for first reading in early February, Bill 4 – the Park Amendment Act 2014 aims at outlining clear...

BC Liquor Store back supporting Dry Grad

BC Liquor Store customers are invited to support alcohol-free events for graduating high school students by donating $1 or more at the cash register to the Support Dry Grad campaign between Monday, February 24 and March 31. Contributions by BC Liquor Store customers and staff top up funds raised by parents, students and...
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