This September Slocan Valley Recreation has several interesting programs coming up, but they are going to start the season by having you climbing a wall – literally. Jody and Wendy Knight operate Bear Rock Climbing and they have recently moved to Slocan Park. You may recognize them because they have an eight-metre tall portable...

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities' (FCM) national Board of Directors will meet in Nelson starting Wednesday ahead of Parliament’s return. The 75-member Board will discuss municipal priorities including the development of a federal long-term infrastructure plan and the upcoming federal budget.  FCM's Board of Directors...

Forty Wildfire Management Branch fire fighters are working alongside an equivalent number of West Kelowna Fire Department and mutual aid personnel to contain an estimated 35 hectare fire in Bear Creek Provincial Park. Strong down slope winds and aggressive fire behaviour hampered fire fighters who battled the blaze that broke...

Princeton had its emergency room closed and went without a doctor for 24 hours beginning at 8 a.m. Monday. With no doctors on call and the sole locum (temporary doctor) available taken ill just before the shift, residents of the 2,600-person town were told to drive more than 100 kilometres east to Penticton for treatment....

Hundreds of B.C. residents are joining an online protest over the government’s decision to award ex-premier Gordon Campbell with the Order of British Columbia. Online opposition has grown steadily since Friday’s announcement that Campbell would receive B.C.’s highest honour for being an “exemplary British Columbian in education,...

British Columbia’s Community Gaming Grant Review will visit Kelowna for a public forum scheduled for Monday, Sept. 12 at the Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society. Skip Triplett, appointed in July by Premier Christy Clark to lead the independent review, is examining the role of government in allocating gaming revenue with input from...

Local art duo heartlab (Anita Levesque and Bradley Smith) will be offering a hands-on collaborative art making workshop that will include a brief discussion about their work. Pairs of any kind are encouraged to attend (e.g. friends, siblings, couples), although any individual is welcome, and will be matched with a partner. ...

Finding the heart and soul of the food movement can sometimes mean getting your hands dirty—in a good way. Kristeva Dowling’s Chicken Poop for the Soul (Caitlin Press, 2011) is a witty, humorous and often bizarre journey of trial and error as the author sheds urban life for rural independence. Dowling reads from her book on...

The move is on.Approval has now been given for the purchase of the land to move the city's transfer station, as the Regional District of Central Kootenay board of directors voted last week to move it, one month after the item was brought to the board level.The new site of the waste transfer station will be at the end of Insight...

A robust small business and tourism sector is essential for the development of asustainable and diverse rural economy, said Joyce Murray, Liberal MP for Vancouver Quadra and former BC Environment Minister.Murray met with community leaders from Fernie, Kimberley, Cranbrook and the Creston Valley on Thursday.She heard about the...