With fire season underway, the Castlegar Fire Department is reminding residents that burning yard and garden waste is an absolute no-no - and could cost you big bucks. The following is a Facebook post CFD published detailing just how expensive it can be to violate burning rules within city limits: Please be aware, City of...

Castlegar police re-enacted their own version of Animal Farm this morning, as livestock concerns took the limelight in calls for response. Castlegar top cop RCMP Sgt. Darren Oelke said (after much hectoring from a local reporter for a story to cover) police got a call at 10:44 a.m. Thursday morning about a mule on the […]

New information is surfacing about a fatal MVI  and fuel spill on Hwy 3 near Salmo last night. RCMP West Kootenay Traffic Services Sgt. Chad Badry said the vehicle involved was a B-Train fuel truck, meaning a tractor hauling two fuel tankers. “They were carrying gasoline and diesel,” Badry said. “A significant amount was...

Update from Interior Health: This incident resulted in fuel contamination in the South Salmo River. Interior Health has identified no registered drinking water users downstream of the spill site and there is a low risk to public health. Residents who may draw their water from the river between the crash site and the Salmo...

Syringa Provincial Park may be getting 35 new hectares added, according to an announcement by the Province of B.C. yesterday. “Proposed amendments to the Protected Areas of British Columbia Act will expand B.C.’s parks and protected areas system, adding approximately 107 hectares of new land to six existing Class A parks,” ...

The West Kootenay Timberwolves will play in the Alberta Junior B Tier III Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League in 2019. The Timberwolves are pleased to announce the return of the 2018 coaching staff.  Head Coach Peter Youngblut will share the bench with Assistant Coaches Kevin Floyd and Rob Van Beek, and Goaltending Coach Tyler...

There's a vaccine against whooping cough (Bordetella pertussis) so I assumed that I am permanently immune to it.  But that turns out not to be true.  Whether we have been vaccinated or have been infected with whooping cough, we will enjoy only  transient and variable protection from contracting this ailment again, especially...

Left lane hogs were back in the news again this week. The CTV Vancouver news story that I watched complained that drivers were not being held to account by police for failing to move out of the left lane and letting other drivers pass. The report claims that based on ticket numbers reported by ICBC the number of drivers...

How often do you get to watch a fabulous movie, support an excellent local enterprise AND give to a good cause all at the same time? You will April 11 at 7 p.m., if you go to see A Star is Born at the Castle Theatre, starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga (to watch the official trailer, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSbzyEJ8X9E...

Castlegar’s 2019 graduating class has come together in a project that proves ‘kids these days’ can be pretty spectacular, as they honour a local first responder who was killed in a tragic MVI in November. Wayne Kernachan, owner of Keegz South Country Towing, was only 51 when he tried to help a motorist in distress and was...