The City of Castlegar will be undertaking a traffic study for the stretch of Columbia Avenue near First Street after an application for a temporary work permit opened a largely-unrelated can of worms. City councillor Kirk Duff said visibility issues along that thoroughfare have long been problematic, but the permit application...

 Airport manager (and fire chief) Gerry Rempel said residents need not be alarmed if they see flashing red lights on the mountainsides surrounding Castlegar. He said the lights will indicate the testing of the airport's new beacons, a million-dollar project that will soon, hopefully, allow for nighttime departures from the ...

It’s a rare thing to gain exclusive, invite-only access to the world premiere of a film. Almost as rare for this writer is an impromptu trip through Vancouver and the Sea to Sky Corridor to bear witness to such an event: I don’t like leaving my house. Even more rare (and now we’re talking almost […]

Since April 28 of this year, Trail has been inundated with a rash of vandalism to vehicles that involved a chemical being sprayed on them that stripped the paint. The areas hit included Glenmerry along with East and West Trail. In the early hours of August 13, a General Duty member noted a suspicious person on Topping Street […]

 The saga of the City Centre Motel continues, as city council last night approved a recommendation that the city ask the B.C. Supreme Court for a stop-work order to prevent the motel owners from undertaking work without appropriate permits. City director of planning and development Phil Markin said the owners have apparently...

A backpack on a picnic table is all the RCMP have to go on in locating 24-year-old Australian Owen Kiernan Rooney. Rooney was last seen at the Boundary Hospital at 7649 – 22 St. in Grand Forks on  Aug. 14 at about 8 p.m. Rooney left the hospital, leaving behind his backpack on a picnic table on […]

by Armine Yalnizyan In the past few weeks some of Canada’s most respected economic authorities, including Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, have voiced concerns over the fragility of the recovery, globally and at home.  Now Paul Krugman joins that chorus of Cassandras, pointing his finger straight at the wishful thinkers who say Canada’s heavy lifting […]

Kootenay West MLA, Katrine Conroy is celebrating the successful completion of the HST initiative petition. “This is an historic democratic achievement for the people of BC” stated Conroy. “However the attempt by the BC Liberals and their friends to thwart the public will is a dangerous precedent for democracy.” Conroy joins her colleagues and the […]

 A 73-year-old Castlegar man is in Trail hospital after being repeatedly stabbed early this morning, according to police. “At (about) 12:15 a.m., Castlegar RCMP received a report of an elderly adult male being the victim of a stabbing incident within his residence,” said Staff Sgt. Dan Seibel. “RCMP attended the 800block of Sixth Avenue (and […]

After years of deteriorating farm income, mounting debt and ill-designed income stability programs, can life on Canadian farms get worse?  It certainly appears so. The government is forecasting that the price of many farm commodities will decline in 2010.  And despite a complete overhaul by the Conservative government, farm income programs are causing the same […]