BC Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko will be hosting more in a series of “MP Community Forums”. Elected officials from other levels of government will join Atamanenko in an open panel presentation to constituents on their latest hot topics, followed by an open discussion, with questions and comments sought from residents....

Women’s Enterprise Centre’s is bringing a free Peer Mentoring program to Castlegar this year specifically to help locally self-employed women build successful businesses.Peer mentoring is designed to help women entrepreneurs address the issues and barriers they experience while making the transition to self-employment. These...

Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) is now accepting community-initiated and community-supported project applications for its Environmental Initiatives Program (EIP)."This program has been very successful in the past and we want to continue to see the projects it supports making a difference in Basin communities," said Rick Allen, CBT...

Dear Editor:  Is it perhaps time to take the Gaming Centre out of the backrooms of City Hall and re-examine it, in public, in the ‘light of day’ .. and given today’s realities?   "The expected progress on the Castlegar Gaming Centre has not come to fruition". " City council received a letter from the BC Lottery Corporation ...

Selkirk College, along with other educational institutions in NorthAmerica and the world, is actively pursuing environmental sustainabilityin all facets of its locations, hoping to reduce its overall impact onthe environment. Last year, the Environmental Sustainability (ES) Committee at SelkirkCollege hired Renewable Resource...

Seedy Sunday will give participants an opportunity to exchange heritage seeds or to sell them to other collectors and gardeners. This will be followed by a workshop which will focus on seed selection, avoiding cross pollination, preserving the gene pool and other vital information concerning the ever expanding human consciousness...

Photo: city councillor Kevin Chernoff A pedestrian/bicycle walkway over Highway 3 near the Kinnaird Bridge may be in the works as the city applies for a $150,000 federal grant to construct the project.The walkway would consist of a 20th Street overpass across Highway 3 connecting the 6th Avenue and Connors Road bicycle routes....

When Castlegar fire chief Gerry Rempel says he has an open-door policy, he means to all age groups – and it shows. Rempel presented a new recruitment policy to council at its regular meeting Monday night, requesting the department open its doors to youth and retired firefighters, in defiance of current age restrictions that...

A local landmark – or eyesore, depending on your perspective – may soon be a thing of the past, as the City Centre Motel in downtown Castlegar has now come under the eye of local inspectors and safety officials. Mayor Lawrence Chernoff said the dilapitated state of the building has given rise to concerns it might meet a similar...

Cannabis is the word of the week as the premier of the documentary two years in the making hits the airwaves tonight on CBC. The show, Cannabiz, follows the evolution of the marijuana culture and industry in the Grand Forks area from the mom and pop growers to the more criminalized elements evident today. Cannabiz highlights...