Minister Iain Black, hosted by the City of Greenwood last week, rang in the new era for the regional chamber of commerce for the Boundary region last week. Black, Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development (at the time) was on tour to recognize small business month in the province.   Black, accompanied ...

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson DailyA “resource-intensive” investigation by the RCMP in the West Kootenay/Boundary region in the last four months has resulted in 21 people being charged with 43 drug trafficking offences. Members of the Kootenay Boundary Regional Detachment plain clothes General Investigation Section embarked...

 “My Father is Li Gang!” has become the most popular catchphrase in the Chinese Internet in the past few days. First of all, you may ask, who is Li Gang? Li Gang is the deputy director of the police department in the northern district of Baoding city, Hebei province.On October 16, a car accident took place in Hebei University,...

A new invasive grass has been found growing in the Christina Lake area.  Longspine sandbur (Cenchrus longispinus) was located at the pullout at the junction of East Lake Drive and Highway 3. This site was found late this fall so the treatment crew, funded through the Invasive Plant Council of BC, did their best to collect as...

Volunteers assisted search and rescue teams in the third ground search for missing 24-year-old Owen Rooney in Grand Forks on Saturday in hopes of finding some clues in the disappearance of the Australian. Rooney has been missing for two-and-a-half months, and was last seen at the Boundary Hospital where he had been treated ...

Emergency protocols kicked into play last night as a chemical leak at the Grand Forks Arena shut down a two-block radius of traffic. John Mackey, director of recreation and facilities, explained that a mechanical failure in the refrigeration plant caused the pressure relief valve to go off releasing 5o pounds of ammonia into...

Saturday morning, Oct. 23, Grand Forks Search and Rescue will lead a volunteer effort to locate missing Australian Owen Rooney. The 24-year-old went missing from Grand Forks on Aug. 14. His family and the Grand Forks detachment of the RCMP have been searching for clues as to his whereabouts since that date.   “Grand Forks...

Justin Douglas, 35, of Greenwood, BC, is facing numerous charges after police executed a search warrant on his property, on Aug. 19, 2010, located in the 100 - block of Gold Avenue.Recovered from the property were nineteen sticks of dynamite, fifteen of which were bound together with a homemade fuse, along with three loaded...

Selkirk College’s Mir Centre for Peace Speaker Series Endowment has exceeded its target of $200,000, thanks to the generosity and support of community members, organizations and companies. Selkirk President Marilyn Luscombe made the public announcement at the Irving K. Barber Mir lecture featuring David Suzuki on September ...

Charlie, a Chimpanzee in a South African zoo who became addicted to cigarettes, has died at the age of 52, exceeding the average lifespan of a captive chimpanzee by twelve years. After a video of Charlie puffing on cigarettes discarded by visitors appeared on the Internet, the animal and the zoo gained international attention...