The missing persons case involving 81-year-old Mr. Knee of Grand Forks was solved this afternoon when he was found deceased over the bank of the Paulson Pass highway just north of the Paulson Bridge. Knee vanished from the Boundary residential care facility in Grand Forks Wednesday afternoon.A representative from the West...

Area Conservatives have given Rossland’s Stephen Hill the nod to take a run at re-capturing the riding in the next federal election, in a 161-to-132 upset over incumbent Tory nominee Rob Zandee. Members of the Conservative Party of Canada gathered in Grand Forks and Oliver, as well as at the Fireside Inn here in Castlegar, […]

A “stabbing incident” at Castlegar’s Twin Rivers Elementary was not as dire as rumours would indicate. Castlegar RCMP Cpl. Mike Mysko said police recieved a 9-1-1 complaint Tuesday at just after 12:30 p.m. indicating a 10-year-old student had stabbed another student. “The incident developed when a 12-year-old boy observed the young girl playing with a […]

Castlegar city council has given the green light for the installion of two new Mosquito devices, similar to the one already in place near the Element Bar and Grill downtown.The device was installed downtown because it emits an irritating, high-pitched whining sound designed to send unsavoury loiterers on their way - an effect...

Ed. Note: the following as a press release issued by Toxco. Inc.Toxco, Inc. has begun clean up operations from a primary lithium battery fire that occurred in one of the plant’s permitted approved storage building located at the (Trail) site, on the evening of Nov. 7.The fire occurred during non operation hours and no one was...

Photo by Randy Lebedow Castlegar fire crews were among those that responded to a spectacular blaze in Trail Saturday night. Fire chief Gerry Rempel said Castlegar sent both a crew and firefighting foam, but despite the best efforts of five different fire departments, the remains were still smouldering at 1 p.m. today. Details on the […]

Castlegar RCMP are cautioning residents that using Facebook as a method of reporting crime in the city is both dangerous and irresponsible – largely because heresay often gets the facts all wrong. Castlegar RCMP Cpl. Deb Postnikoff explains: “Claims made on Facebook of a female being chased by unknown assailants in the downtown core of […]

Castlegar city council has decided to pay the final amount of Celgar's major industry municipal taxes owed to other jurisdictions – in this case, just over $334,000 owed for school taxes.In a report to council brought forward at Monday night's regular meeting, city finance director Andre Buss recommended paying the bill.“The...

School District 20 superintendent Jean Borsa said today that Castlegar schools have not been as hard-hit as some others in the region by the H1N1 virus (swine flu).“It's sort of going away now,” she said, explaining Castlegar Primary School say an absenteeism rate of about 20 per cent last week, but that number is down this...

Ed. Note: The following is a press release issued jointly by the Columbia Power Corporation and the Columbia Basin Trust. The Source logged calls to five executive-level representatives at the two organizations, but no one had returned our calls bas of this press time.Waneta Expansion Power Corporation (WEPC), a subsidiary ...