State of emergency for BC ends, fire response continues
Based on advice from emergency management and wildfire officials, British Columbia’s provincial state of emergency will expire at the end of the day on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. The work of firefighters from B.C., Canada and abroad, as well as wildfire risk diminishing in much of the Province as temperatures cool, has led to many […]
BCGEU faculty agreements ratified under Shared Recovery Mandate
Five BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) faculty agreements reached at the common table under the Province’s Shared Recovery Mandate have been ratified by the board of the Post-Secondary Employers’ Association (PSEA). These agreements cover nearly 950 BCGEU faculty members, most of whom teach vocational programs. The PSEA and the BCGEU tentatively settled the common agreement […]
Plane makes emergency landing on highway near Salmo
On Sept. 12, 2023, at 9 a.m., a member of the public reported a small plane parked on the side of Hwy 6, near Salmo, according to RCMP Cpl. James Grandy. “An officer with the BC Highway Patrol arrived and located the 1969 Lake Capithian single engine aircraft, pulled off to the side of the […]
Castlegar house target of arson — RCMP
Castlegar RCMP are currently investigating a suspicious house fire in the early hours of Tuesday morning in the Sunflower City. RCMP said at that approximately 1 a.m., on September 12, 2023 a resident in the 2900 block of 5th Avenue in Castlegar, BC observed fire coming from his neighbour’s property. RCMP said the witness and […]
Annual Cops for Kids Ride through southeastern B.C. makes stop in Nelson
Monday there was a long line of blue cyclists that cruised through Nelson as the 2023 Cops for Kids Ride continued its trek through the Southern Interior of BC. Since 2001, Cops for Kids, presented by the Thomas Alan Budd Foundation, have raised over $6.1 million in support of local children in medical, physical, or […]
Vintage vehicles thrill thousands at 2023 Queen City Cruise
Nelson was once again the place to be as car show enthusiasts from all over Western Canada and parts of the United States flocked to the Heritage City over the weekend to participate in the 2023 Nelson Road Kings Queen City Cruise. Beginning with Friday registration and a parade along Baker Street — which included […]
Funding announced for a multi-year project to improve connectivity for 5,429 rural households
Funding was announced Thursday in Castlegar for rural communities and areas in the Columbia Basin — encompassing 5,429 homes — to create access to high-speed Internet. This new multi-year, $82-million project is being funded by the federal and provincial governments, the regional districts of Central Kootenay, Columbia Shuswap, Kootenay Boundary, East Kootenay and Columbia Basin […]
Mir Lecture Turns Focus to Wildfire
The threat surrounds us and it’s urgent. Wildfire is a constant theme of the annual calendar in British Columbia and with the disastrous outcomes of Mother Nature’s wrath still fresh, Selkirk College is welcoming award-winning author John Vaillant to take part in a Mir Centre for Peace Lecture. Released this past June, Vaillant’s latest book, Fire […]
Orange Shirt Day Design Places Focus on the Guardians
A safe and supportive future for Indigenous children was the creative fuel used for second-year student Payton Maffioli’s Orange Shirt Day design that will be worn across the Selkirk College region on September 30. The chosen design for 2023 features two bear pawprints, a smaller cub’s mark inside the mother’s protective imprint is surrounded by […]
Last Stand West Kootenay halt logging at Duncan Reservoir
Members of Last Stand West Kootenay stood united Tuesday morning in blocking logging operations to continue on the West Side of the Duncan Reservoir (KM 58), 90 minutes north of Kaslo. Last Stand West Kootenay, in light of a record year of wildfires nation-wide, is demanding an immediate moratorium on old growth logging and other […]
