The Grand Forks Rifle and Handgun Club/Boundary Pistol Club may vote to fold if enough members can't be found. That's why the club is holding a special meeting on Tuesday, April 17 at 7 p.m. in the Wildlife Hall, 7820 2nd Avenue, Grand Forks. According to John Billwiller, acting secretary-treasurer for the club, only five of...

Entering their third year, the Boundary Soccer league is getting underway this month offering many ways for parents and youth to get involved. K4K is a program designed for 2- and 3-year-olds, a drop in program to give these young uns an introduction to soccer, it is cost free to the user, and will be offered Sunday mid-mornings...

Off the Unbeaten Trail is a fundraising event for the Grand Forks ATV Club (GFATV). The event will take place at the Grand Forks Wildlife Hall on Saturday, May 12 from noon to 4:00 p.m.  Throughout the day will be a BBQ featuring local pork (North Fork Pork & Poultry) and beef (Carl Sidwell) on a bun made by B & B...

News on funding proposal decisions for recreation improvements across the Boundary region came through this week with the Village of Midway and the City of Greenwood coming up as winners. The Village of Midway will receive $400,000 from the Ministry of Community, Sport, and Cultural Development's Community Recreation Program...

Phoenix Mountain Alpine Ski Society (PMASS) will be receiving at $47,000 Community Gaming Grant from the provincial government this spring. The money is welcome, but will really only dig PMASS out of last year's debt and not help with what is to come for the 2012-2013 ski season, said Don Colclough, society president. "It's...

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 ...

It was a team of veteran curlers who have dominated Masters play in BC the past five years, and a team of relative newcomers to competitive curling who came out on top last weekend in Grand Forks at the 26th BC Masters Curling championship. Rick Pughe from Royal City Curling Centre in New Westminster and Beverly Skinner from...

Anita Cochrane was born in Quebec in 1971. When she was three years of age her father, Ted Bassett, was winning his share of curling games. He reached the Men’s finals in Quebec in 1974 and that would be followed by numerous achievements in the sport in other provinces. Not surprisingly Anita would embrace curling and later...

The Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) is issuing a special public avalanche warning for a widespread area of the province’s backcountry. The warning includes the mountainous areas of the Cariboos, the North and South Columbias, the North and South Rockies, Kootenay Boundary, the Lizard Range, the Purcells, the South Coast Inland...

This could be the last ski season for the Phoenix Ski Hill if no secure funding is found for the non-profit operation. For the past few months the Phoenix Mountain Alpine Ski Society (PMASS) president Don Colclough has been appearing at local government meetings and speaking to the Regional District Kootenay Boundary (RDKB)...