Zellstoff Celgar general manager Al Hitzroth will be attending this Monday night's budget unveiling at the Community Forum, appearing as a delegation to speak to,  "the critical need for major industry tax decreases in order for the mill to remain competitive in today’s international markets," according to a city press release...

Photo by Nick Chernoff: some of the chaos wrought by would-be burglars in a break-in on St. Patrick's Day. Trowelex may be the only company in local history to make money off a break-in. The luck of the Irish is a double-sided coin for the folks at Trowelex - 17 minutes into St. Patrick's Day, they received a call from the ...

  "On March 12, a Castlegar resident received a call from a male claiming to be her grandson in Calgary," said Castlegar RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew. "This male knew her grandson's name, and sounded like him. The male provided a story about how he had been arrested and needed money to bail him out of jail." The victim in this...

Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) is announcing $390,000 to launch the 2010 Summer Works Program, a Basin-wide wage subsidy program for small business and social enterprise to create up to 100 summer student jobs in the region. The program aims to encourage businesses to provide employment this summer for high school and post-secondary...

First year Nursing student, Kayla Dixson, gains valuable experience during the Hearts at Work fair recently held at Walmart in Nelson. The Nursing program at Selkirk College has partnered with Interior Health to promote wellness in the workplace. Over the last few months, first and third year Nursing students and the Interior...

Food is so often at the heart of community fundraising – barbecues, bake sales and the like – but the complex rules and regulations governing food sale may be overwhelming to those with even the best of intentions. No stranger to fundraising herself, Castlegar Hospice executive director Suzanne Lehbauer set out to address...

A car accident involving a Castlegar fire truck Friday afternoon is underlining the risks inherent in “pranks” like setting brush fires and purposely setting off alarms. Fire chief Gerry Rempel was responding to a call regarding brush fires at 2:20 p.m., when the accident occurred on Columbia Avenue in front of the Sandman ...

Ed. Note: The following is a press release issued by the City of Castlegar, including links to a survey allowing for in-depth public input before the the public meeting process begins. Your City needs you. A little melodramatic, perhaps – but true, nonetheless. A changing economic landscape in Castlegar has made budget cuts...

The Castlegar and District Chamber of Commerce honoured seven local business Saturday night, including naming M&M Meat Shops Business of the Year, with Businessperson of theYear being awarded to Florio Vassilakakis of the Element Night Club.The Fireside Inn was packed with more than 100 people, including city councillors...

Police have concluded their investigation into the allegations of a sexual assault that was said to have occurred in Millennium Park during the first week of October 2009. The 30-year-old female has admitted to investigators that the allegation she made to police was in fact false. There was no sexual assault. The RCMP are ...