With rumours growing about a deadline for Marshall Lake’s ultimate demise activists, politicians and land owners continue to meet with key provincial staff to save the lake. Greenwood resident Christopher Stevenson, one of the key people leading the charge to protect the small lake which lies between Grand Forks and Greenwood...

The School District 51 Board of Education will be presenting a report of their plans for re-designing the school district to include a middle school in the face of declining enrollement and reduced funding during two community forums next week. The first District Re-Design Community Forum is set for the West Boundary region...

Tonight, Wednesday, Sept. 26 School District 51 is hosting a community forum about the future of graduation requirements in our province. All community members are invited to join in the conversation, which starts at 7 p.m. in the Perley Elementary School gymnasium. The BC Ministry of Education is seeking input from around ...

Dust from farmer's fields and roads, exhaust from large trucks, construction and tourist traffic, and open burning cause for spikes in particulate matter readings during the first two months of the year-long Nephelometer Study in Grand Forks, according to a report. Last week Wayne Kopan, manager of environment and building ...

Bright green garbage cans have been popping up on doorsteps all over Grand Forks this past week as a sign of a new approach in local garbage collection -- the Foodscraps Collection program. While some residents give praise for the efforts to curb garbage volumes, others are not impressed. For the past eight months residents...

Ottawa – On the eve of the Global Frackdown – the Council of Canadians is calling for a ban, or at the very least a moratorium, onfrackingfrom coast to coast. The Council points to the fact that evenanalysts of the industryhave acknowledgedthat fracking fluids won’t be safe for human consumption within the next five years, ...

This week's annual deer count showed a stable but declining population. The count on Tuesday, Sept. 18 came up with 154 deer living within the Grand Forks city limits. That is down from last year's 179. "We're seeing the deer level out -- they seem to have peaked," said Cher Wyers, Grand Forks councillor while chairing the ...

UPDATE: As of today, Saturday, Sept. 22, Greenwood residents can again drink their water now Interior Health Authority has lifted the boil water advisory that took effect on Thursday, Sept. 20. Original Story: The Interior Health Authority has lifted the water ban in Greenwood and replaced it with a boil water advisory, today,...

UPDATED: Fire under control, has expanded to more than 10 acres on Owl Mountain A small half-acre wildfire has turned into more than a 10 acre blaze on Owl Mountain, located south of the Cascade Border crossing in Christina Lake. Crews from Colville, Washington have been monitoring the blaze since it began last week from a ...

Greenwood residents are being warned not to use their tap water for anything but flushing their toilets until Interior Health Authority (IHA) has ruled out a possible contamination. Today, Monday Sept. 17, a City of Greenwood crew member discovered the lock on the access hatch to the community's reservoir had been removed by...