The family of missing 19-year-old Castlegar man Zachary Larsen has posted a $10,000 award for any information leading to the young man’s safe return. Larsen was last seen at around 3 a.m. on June 6. There was a possible later sighting at 5 a.m. in the city’s downtown core, but police have been unable to […]

Memorial services are scheduled for Thursday for a 29-year-old Castlegar man who died in a motorcycle accident early Sunday morning. Josh Evin, professional skateboarder and owner of Black Russian Skate Shop on Columbia Avenue, died last weekend when his motorcyle struck a guard rail and threw him into the Kootenay Canal,...

 What better way to celebrate our nation's birth than learning how to train your dragon? Castlegar's Canada Day celebrations are set to incude the popular Movie in the Park (last year drew roughly 1,000 people), featuring computer-animated fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation, How to Train Your Dragon.   The movie, to be shown...

Castlegar police are in the beginning stages of investigating a scam that has so far targeted two local businesses. The perpetrators, according to RCMP Sgt. Laurel Mathew, are singling out companies large enough to have corporate head offices in a community other than Castlegar. "They call and say they're (insert made-up name...

 Do we as a community have the right to know if there is a dangerous or violent offender in our midst? I would like to believe that most of us would respond with a resounding yes. Yet, what if that same offender was a youth? Aaahh… now the answer is not so easy, is it? […]

  The sixth annual Castlegar Relay for Life seems to have been a resounding success, cresting its fundraising goal of $50,000 ... and donations are still coming in.   Tara Kowalchuk, West Kootenay regional coordinator, Relay for Life, said the event drew 291 participants, 33 teams, 44 volunteers and 26 survivors, raising...

Getting back to the free software series, let’s take a look at Open Office (www.openoffice.org). Called OOo for OpenOffice.org, Open Office is a full-featured office suite with a word processor, spreadsheet package, presentation software and a database. To get all of those applications in a version of Microsoft Office, you would have to look at […]

 Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) sets its overall strategic priorities every three to four years. The priorities provide overarching direction for CBT in terms of delivering benefits, pursuing investment activities and managing corporate operations in the Columbia Basin region. The current strategic priorities expire this year. ...

Castlegar has really been put through the wringer in the past few weeks. Tons of bad news, most of it involving young people – the high school student arrested for possession of child pornography, then, days later, the so-far unsuccessful search for 19-year-old Zach Larsen.   Days of fruitless searching until the Search and Rescue […]

 Students from Selkirk College’s School of University Arts & Sciences dug into their studies through an archaeological field school at Zuckerberg Island in Castlegar from June 7-11. During the week, archaeological sites were set up in and around former kekulis (remains of underground houses built by First Nations people)...