Never mind just learning to skateboard – how about learning to coach skateboarding? Portland, Oregon’s Ben Wixon MA.ED, director of development-programming and instruction, Skaters for Public Skateparks, and executive director of Drop In to Skateboarding is coming to Castlegar Rotary Skatepark on July 7. Wixon, co-developer...

Proposed environmental and safety precautions are not enough for residents along the Granby River north of Grand Forks to believe that a granite mine, whose products are heading to China, should proceed. “The negative impacts far outweigh the benefits to this community or to Canada,” said Dana Riester who lives near the bluff....

Photo: Castlegar teen Ian McMahon takes a break from wading through Millennium Park Thursday. The torrential rainfall appears to be a phenomenon of the past, but the City of Castlegar will be a while drying out, according to director of Transportation and Civic works Chris Barlow. Millennium and Zuckerberg Parks remain closed...

Cockamamie! Lets just get down to the brass tacks, the council made their decision on chickens within city limits. Some of you may not have liked the way the decision was reached, but so be it; Things don’t always go your way and life surely isn’t fair. The mayor and council are elected by the citizens to make decisions with...

The Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK) Emergency Operations Centre is working with various agencies to ensure public safety for travelers and area residents in response to concerns about sloughing and seepage from a tailings pond. The tailings pond has been impacted by heavy rainfall yesterday and ongoing creek/stream...

Thanks to a recent Nelson council meeting, everyone is focused on the subject of drugs. Adrian Barnes‘ June 30 opinion piece is an example, and another is a letter in the Star. I quote that letter by K.M. Sykes: …it’s paramount to ask the right [questions}, the deeper ones, the ones that embrace a higher level of awareness…...

Truth be told, the truth is elusive. It can never be “final” since it is grounded in the human mindset and limited to facts known at a point in time. As more details become known, social attitudes and customs change and a new truth emerges. This is our life story, yet humans hunger for a reality that is anchored to our senses....

A logging truck sideswiped a minivan after losing control on the slush that covered Highway 3 around the Mud Lake area – just east of the Paulson Bridge – at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, July 3.  “That was ugly weather,” said Trail RCMP sergeant Rob Hawthon. “(The bad weather) was not unusual but not to that extent. You’re at a pretty...

When it comes to jobs and the economy we often get conflicting messages as to how many jobs were actually created.  I thought it would be interesting to share some figures that Statistics Canada released for the month of May. THE BASICS The Canadian economy as a whole added just 7,700 jobs in May – a relatively weak showing. ...

More than 1,300 small businesses in the Okanagan and Kootenays are reaping big savings on their electricity bills thanks to a $6.85 million lighting installation program sponsored by the Province of British Columbia and FortisBC.  “Small businesses in the Okanagan and Kootenays wanted a program that would make saving energy...