The five public post-secondary institutions providing education and training to British Columbia’s Southern Interior are joining forces to collaborate on new training opportunities and services.Leaders from the College of the Rockies, Selkirk College, Okanagan College, University of British Columbia Okanagan and Thompson...

Castlegar Mayor Lawrence Chernoff is publicly calling for province-wide tax reform in response to a range of issues facing B.C. municipalities, including Castlegar. Chernoff said the systems by which taxes are collected and distributed were created based on obsolete criteria – what made sense decades, or even centuries, ago does not serve the modern province’s […]

Castlegar police, while encouraging Olympic enthusiasm, are cautioning residents against overdoing it. RCMP Cpl. Mike Mysko, in charge of the city’s new Crime Reduction Unit, had an illustrative example of what not to do while celebrating the Olympic spirit. “(On the evening of Jan. 21), I was working one of our very first evening shifts […]

Photo courtesy DDC: Netta Zeberoff looks over the mounds that still have remnants of last year’s harvest. There is one thing in common with all species on Mother Earth – and that is food. People need good land to grow food in abundance – and thankfully there are those willing to share their piece of earth that would otherwise...

The five public post-secondary institutions providing education and training to B.C. Southern Interior are joining forces to collaborate on new training opportunities and services. Leaders from the College of the Rockies, Selkirk College, Okanagan College, University of B.C. Okanagan and Thompson Rivers University recently ...

The following is a press release issued by the provincial government: As B.C. prepares to welcome the world to the 2010 Winter Games, the B.C. Government, Better Business Bureau and Consumer Protection BC are reminding both International visitors and Canadian residents to be careful and do their homework before booking vacation rentals. Online classified advertisements have […]

Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid joined Kootenay-Columbia board of education chair Gordon Smith, parents, caregivers and district staff today at the official opening of the StrongStart BC early learning centre at Robson Community school. “This new StrongStart BC centre in Robson will mean that more children and families can receive support as they build the early […]

Authorities still trying to determine why a local man died while skiing at Red Mountain Friday. Castlegar's Gordon Earnest Reeve, 65, was up on the hill skiing with friends in the Paradise area. While coming down through the trees in the “Inagadadavida” trees alongside Southern Belle, he became separated from his group. His...

How clever and creative must a group of children be, to figure out a way to get their principal dancing Swan Lake in a tutu while contributing to the Haiti relief fund at the same time? One need look no further than the altruistic young minds at Twin Rivers Elementary to see this sort of thinking at work ... they've devised...

The limelight at city council’s first meeting of 2010 was focussed, not on city issues, but on the School District 20 (SD 20) instead. The SD 20 board has been seeking public input on its plans to cope with an anticipated $4-million budget shortfall, due to declining enrolment, in its document Planning for the Future. […]