By Malin Christensson Where do you get local seeds or manure for your garden? Is there someone raising chicks for sale in the Slocan Valley? Who could you ask about how to keep honeybees? There is lots of interest in gardening and eating local food, yet sometimes it seems both a mystery and an illegal […]

Today would be a good day to call in sick. It’s Friday the 13th, one of the more superstitious days of the year, a superstition of bad luck. For years this day has brought out the superstitious side in many people, although there is no written evidence of the superstition before the 19th Century. There […]

Gasoline prices in parts of the West Kootenay continued their upward march Wednesday, rising 2.5 cents per litre, similar to what was happening across the province and the country. The increase followed a 6.5-cents-per-litre jump the day before in some areas. The increases means the average price for a litre of regular is just under […]

The first round of voting is over, and the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce now has five finalists for each of the seven categories in this year’s Business Excellence Awards (The Source is a finalist in the Green Award category). Chamber executive director Pam McLeod says  turning to technology in the voting process has meant ...

The Rossland Swimming Pool Society is making waves this week in an effort to keep the only society-run swimming pool in the province from going down the drain. While the pool itself is not in immediate danger of closing, the society that runs it may be. With almost 80 years of operation under its belt, […]

The countdown to the BC Seniors Games has officially begun after a torchlighting ceremony in Castlegar last night. More than 100 people turned out to watch the torch being lit at 8 p.m. at the Castlegar Complex, after words from games organizers, Castlegar mayor Lawrence Chernoff, Nelson city councillor Deb Kozak, Trail mayor Dieter Bogs, […]

An accidental leak of Facebook users’ personal information over the past few years could have gone to advertisers, Symantec Corp. said in its official blog. The security software maker (blog) said the third parties, likely advertisers, might have gotten into personal information — photographs, chat, profiles — and might have had the ability to post […]

By Geraldine Juarez This post is part of a series of posts on Mexico’s ‘march for peace.’ The silent caravan of the Marchanacional (national march) left Coajumulco early on Friday morning, May 6, to continue on its way to El Zócalo in downtown Mexico City. Jesus Robles Maloof has been blogging about the march, and he […]

By Nicole Brewer Shambhala Music Festival may be hidden and nestled in the mountains, held on a farm near Salmo, but it still ranks in the upper half of a top 100 most visible music festivals on Google, according to a study recently conducted by Marianne Lorthiois, an MBA student in Quebec City. Massive festivals […]

A 2007 wildfire in a portion of the Pend D’Oreille Valley was good news for a family of Lewis’ woodpeckers, a species which prefers dead or well-decayed trees for nesting.  But while the fire created valuable breeding habitat for the woodpeckers, the high risk of trees falling was a serious threat to transmission lines.  The […]