Police officers with the Grand Forks RCMP were kept busy this weekend removing impaired drivers from the road. Midnight impairment The first was Friday night, February 9th around midnight when officers noted a truck travelling at a high rate of speed on Central Avenue near 5th Street only ‘slamming’ on the brakes for a red […]

In 2023, the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome (WNS) in bats was detected in Grand Forks. This winter and spring, the BC Community Bat Program, in collaboration with the Province of BC, is asking the public for help in the effort to detect and prevent the spread of WNS. R esidents are urged to report […]

To The Editor: The BC mining industry just hit a brick wall, and it’s time for BC to wake up and engage. Premier David Eby does not have the moral or Constitutional right to arbitrarily award 6% of the people of our province unfettered use and control of our Crown lands and resources. The truth […]

Kutenai Art Therapy Institute (KATI), a leader in expressive arts and land-based healing practices, is thrilled to announce an upcoming event for individuals interested in the field of art therapy. “How to Become an Art Therapist – Campus Tour and Info Session” will take place on Monday, February 26, 2024, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 […]

BC Culture Days is calling for emerging artists residing in B.C. to apply to their annual Ambassador Program. With the program’s regional focus, artists from remote or rural communities are strongly encouraged to apply. Program participants will act as spokespeople for Culture Days and will receive $2,000 to plan and host a community-engaged Culture Days event, which will take […]

The Province’s fish biologists and international co-managers will be on Moyie Lake in February to catch, tag and release burbot as part of egg collection to support recovery in the Kootenay River and Kootenay Lake. The egg-collection project is part of successful recovery efforts for the Lower Kootenay burbot population downstream of Libby Dam in […]

A full environmental impact assessment of the proposed Zincton all-season resort is being called for by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and the Sinixt Confederacy. Currently before the Mountain Resorts Branch of the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, the back country ski development proposed for the Selkirk […]

The recovery of an important First Nation fishery in Kootenay Lake is on. With a population that was near extinction in the mid-1990s in the lower reaches of Kootenay Lake and the Kootenay River system, burbot — a species of cold water, ray-finned fish — is the subject of an egg collecting effort on now […]

Selkirk College said the incident Thursday afternoon at the Silver King Campus in Nelson was the result of two acetylene gas tanks exploding. “Just after 1:30 pm on Thursday, February 8, two acetylene gas tanks exploded outside the North Trades Building on the Silver King Campus in Nelson,” the media release said on the Selkirk […]

By Owen Fullerton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Radio stations in Kingston that were previously owned by Bell Media are now properties of My Broadcasting Corporation (MBC). Move 98.3 FM and Pure Country 99 are being acquired by MBC, who also own MyFM stations in both Gananoque and Napanee. (Radio stations in the West Kootenay formerly owned by Bell […]