Rossland skier Lesley Beatson made an impressive come-back representing Canada at the Masters World Cup of cross-country skiing in Klosters, Switzerland, March 9-15, 2025. Despite warm and extremely challenging conditions, Beatson finished in third place in the 20-km skate-ski event and just missed the podium by a hair in the 10-km skate, finishing 1/100 of […]

On Saturday, March 29 and Sunday, March 30, the discharge rates from Arrow Lakes Reservoir will decrease noticeably.  When combined with the outflows from the Kootenay River, Columbia River levels at Birchbank are expected to decrease by 0.84 metres (2.8 feet). Please make safety your top priority when planning activities near the Columbia River. For […]

An avalanche in an Alpine area on the east side of Kootenay Lake swept away a group of skiers, trapping four men. Just prior to 1 p.m. on March 24, 2025, two groups of skiers had just finished skiing the bowl and were waiting in a staging area below the tree line of Clute Creek […]

There is nothing like a near miss or collision to focus your mind on road safety. I often hear from people hoping to enlist my help in solving their issue. Requests have ranged from posting lower speed limits to constructing left turn lanes recently. Most people have already tried something on their own and are […]

RCMP Sgt. Mike Wicentowich said today that on Thursday, March 20, at 1:33 p.m., a frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officer received a report about a 47-year-old Fruitvale man who was allegedly assaulted during a hockey game at the Beaver Valley Arena located at 1777 Green Road, in Fruitvale. He said the alleged assault […]

A healthy, thriving, family friendly community. That’s the vision many Trail residents have for the city, and more than 140 residents recently helped create a plan to make it happen. It’s called Thriving for All: A Plan for Healthy Communities in Our Rural City, and it focuses on reducing or eliminating poverty as the key to […]

On Friday, March 7, at 4:08 p.m., frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officers responded to a report of the sudden death of a 20-year-old Port Coquitlam man at a local ski resort, in Rossland, according to RCMP Sgt. Mike Wicentowich. He said the man had been skiing with his family when he took a […]

Shortly before 10:30 a.m. on March 18, Castlegar RCMP received a report that a vehicle with a lone occupant had driven off the roadway striking a building in the 800 block of Columbia Avenue in Castlegar, according to Castlegar RCMP top cop Sgt. Monty Taylor.. “Emergency services attended locating a black Jeep that appeared to […]

Across BC, access to primary healthcare is top of mind for many of us. I know many people in our community are still struggling to find a primary care practitioner nearby. But over the past few months, I also have heard more and more success stories from people who have become attached to a primary […]

Homo sapiens: freely-willed choices, or inherent immutable natural drives? “We haven’t changed, since ancient times.”  Mark Knopfler, Iron Hand “every soul — is like a minnow, every mind — is like a shark.”  Leonard Cohen Five “A’s” bedevilling our species Humans have never resolved the puzzle of their freedom and their necessities, the things we […]