Eyes sparkling with excitement, an animated Frances Welwood shares her enthusiasm for a remarkable woman, Annie Garland Foster, who challenged the conventions of her times, to become, among other things, the first woman councilor in Nelson. On Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Castlegar & District Public Library you will have the opportunity to […]

Unpicked fruit trees and unsecured garbage has attracted two mother black bears and their cubs onto Christina Lake’s residential streets. One bear and her small cub have been regularly spotted at the nature park located beside the Welcome Centre while a second bear with two small cubs has been eating the fallen fruit and getting […]

Castlegar RCMP are asking the public's assistance in identifying the perpetrators of "stupid, costly and pointless" vandalism, according to Sgt. Laurel Mathew. "There are instances around town of vandalism in which persons are spray painting or drawing various things on buildings and vehicles," Mathew said. "The most recent...

September – the month that summer comes to a screeching halt, kids go back to school, zucchinis take over the world, and Christmas commercials begin to play on T.V. I have never been a real ‘September fan’ … to me, it has always represented a bleak, slippery slope leading to a dark pit of wintery […]

A 39-year-old Trail man has been sentenced to 15 months in jail after being caught with cocaine twice in as many months, according to RCMP Cpl Darryl Orr. According to Orr,  Leonard Ablog Dyoco was arrested July 18 for Possession of Cocaine for the Purpose or Trafficking.   “Members arrested (Dyoco) without incident after he had […]

Nicolas Peissel is a self-described “methodical” person. The 35-year-old Montrealer inherited his sea-faring skills honestly, having grown up on a farm where his parents spent the better part of 10 years building a sailboat to live out their dreams. A decade of work as a shipwright gave Nicolas the opportunity to sail all sorts of […]

City council is chasing the green – environmental and cash savings – with the move to paperless council meetings, according to councillor Kevin Chernoff. “We started thinking about it a year ago, through the Green Committee, and started implementing it in June – I was the first to make the switch,” he said, adding now […]

Fortis BC spokesman Blair Weston appeared as a delegation at council’s regular meeting Monday night, in response to complaints lodged by councillors over the process. Councillor Kevin Jolly said Trail was essentially presented with a fait accompli, bar the approval process through the BC Utilities Commission, in regard to the $16-million operations centre Fortis plans […]

The City of Castlegar is sending a final letter to about 250 residents giving them a last chance to have water metres installed before the snow falls, according to city director of public works Chris Barlow. Barlow said roughly 2,700 metres have to be installed and about 1,500 are done as of today. "We're trying to wrap this...

Source readers really stepped up, answering the call for photos of Pass Creek to give Global TV as they prepare to feature the community in a news segment this Sunday. Roll your mouse over each photo to find out where it was taken and by whom. Pass Creek will be in the limelight Sept. 16, […]