Who you gonna call to keep highway maintenance workers safer? BC Highway Patrol may not have proton packs, but as Halloween approaches, we’re using ghost cars to full effect. Ghost cars, also known as ghost cruisers, are unmarked police vehicles with less obvious emergency lights and markings that are otherwise fully functional police vehicles. Two […]

The Trail & District Arts Council is excited to see the return of Red Sky Dance with their visually stunning “Miigis: Underwater Panther” on Tuesday, Nov. 3 at The Bailey Theatre. “Miigis: Underwater Panther” is a powerful, contemporary, Indigenous dance work inspired by the Great Migration of the Anishinaabe along ancient water routes from the […]

Some artists have a way of stopping you in your tracks. William Prince is one of them. The two-time JUNO Award winner brings his On Rolls the Wheel Acoustic Tour to the Bailey Theatre in Trail on Nov. 13, delivering the kind of live performance that reminds you just how powerful a voice, a guitar […]

Columbia Basin Trust and JA British Columbia (JABC) are offering Basin youth opportunities to take part in after-school programming that provides hands-on business-development experience. “These programs enable youth to explore entrepreneurship and the business world and consider if they might wish to pursue it as a career path,” said Angie Elsmore, Manager, Special Initiatives, Columbia […]

Whether or not the rumoured Super El Niño delivers, ski season in the Kootenays starts Nov. 7 with Team GIVE’R Freeride Club’s fourth annual movie night. Returning to the Bailey Theatre in Trail, this signature fundraiser features The Way Out, the newest film from Matchstick Productions, and a night of pizza, prizes, and poster signings […]

A structure fire on Black Bear Road in Rossland drew nine Rossland firefighters and 12 more from Trail Sunday morning, according to Kootenay Boundary Region Fire Rescue (KBRFR) Captain Grant Tyson. Tyson said the call came in at 10:51 a.m., with fire crews arriving eight minutes later, at 10:59 a.m. “The home was heavily involved […]

Editorial Note:  Readers may notice that this is the first statement we have published from any BC political party or candidate; that is because it’s the first one we’ve received. We have not published any of the press releases from other parties so far because we refuse to publish material based on attacks on others, […]

Columbia Basin residents can learn about themselves, their region, its past and its people by being engaged through arts and culture.To help make this happen, 123 arts and culture projects are receiving more than $542,000 in 2026/27 from Columbia Basin Trust. The funding is distributed through the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance (CKCA), a project of […]

Starting in October, the Trail & District Arts Council brings you another amazing season of live performances at The Bailey. Our season starts on October 6 with Quartetto Gelato, a virtuosic classical quartet known for its eclectic shows featuring romantic ballads, blazing Romani tunes and forgotten music, all brought to life with multi-instrument mastery. Then the Pulitzer Prize […]

A new partnership between Selkirk College, North Island College and Northern Lights College aims to strengthen health care and human services workforces across the province by expanding access to Selkirk College’s Mental Health and Substance Use Training (MHSU) Program. A distributed delivery model of the program gives students the flexibility to study close to home while […]