Masked gowned guests revelled at the Venice carnival style ball last Saturday hosted by Gallery 2. Several months ago the Grand Forks Art Gallery Society identified the need for another fundraiser to meet the increasing cost of operations and to hedge the uncertainty of receiving government grants.  Plans for an event to mark...

The Kettle River remains high on B.C.'s endangered rivers list at number four as a remote wilderness landscape widely known as “the Sacred Headwaters”, and the Kokish River on Vancouver Island have jointly topped British Columbia’s most endangered rivers list for 2012. The Kettle has topped the list, developed by the Outdoor...

Anyone following online citizen media closely this month, would inevitably have come across the heated global debate over the Invisible Children viral campaign to stop Ugandan war criminal and rebel army leader Joseph Kony. While the Kony 2012 campaign certainly received the attention it sought, many Ugandans and Africans...

By Lois Beckett in ProPublica. Instead of picketing outside company headquarters, an advocacy group is using Facebook ads to try to influence people whose profiles identify them as employees of Freddie Mac or JPMorgan Chase. The anti-foreclosure ad campaign, which launches today, asks Freddie and Chase employees to talk to ...

A former Catholic nun who first gained the spotlight with her 1993 book A History of God: The 4,000-year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam,  Karen Armstrong is now an author of 20 books that focus largely on commonalities of major religions – including the nearly universally but often-ignored principle of compassion....

Representatives from Community Futures Boundary will be knocking on doors of Boundary businesses during the next few weeks to take the pulse of the current business climate in the Boundary Country. Business owners will be asked questions that range from sustainability and succession plans, to gaps in the local market for...

Historically, the Boundary Women’s Coalition has celebrated International Women’s Day in Grand Forks.  This year, at the suggestion of women living in the West Boundary, International Women’s Day was celebrated at the Midway Community Hall on Thursday, Mar. 8.  The early afternoon event was well supported with more than 50 ...

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) held its 14th annual Teddy Waste Awards ceremony last week, giving well-deserved recognition to the worst of the worst in government waste. CTF federal director Gregory Thomas hosted for the first time as Master of Ceremonies at the black tie news conference on Parliament Hill on...

Much has been said in recent years about the importance of tourism in our area, as in other parts of the province; coupled with the subject of tourism is economic development. In recent years a new sector of tourism has surfaced – sport tourism. It may come as a surprise that sport tourism is the fastest growing segment of ...

To the Editor; Teachers in the Boundary are very upset and completely disillusioned with the Liberal government's attack on public education and basic union rights that have been fairly negotiated over the past few decades. To make it clear, teachers would much rather be in classrooms with students and only escalated their ...