Grand Forks, Greenwood, Midway and the Kootenay-Boundary Regional District are receiving over $800,000 from the Strategic Community Investment Fund to invest in local policing and community safety, services and projects, MLA Linda Larson has announced.  It is part of almost $74 million being invested through the Fund into...

The RCMP and the B.C. Coroners Service are investigating the death of a Grand Forks man on a logging road south of Revelstoke. Mark Douglas Dickson, 33, died at the scene of the accident when his motorbike hit a pickup truck travelling north on Crawford Forestry Service Road Friday (July 4). Crawford Forestry Service Road is...

Canada Day in the Boundary was hot this year. In Grand Forks, the Boundary Country Regional Chamber of Commerce (BCRCC) helped organize a pancake breakfast in the morning plus a parade. After the parade, celebrants could check out the farmer's market in Gyro Park or the booths and festivities which were in City Park this...

On planet Bennu there are no bullies. Unfortunately, here on Earth,  vernacular like Kleenex, scotch tape, popsicles, Xerox and Mickey Mouse are owned by corporations that have no problem  protecting the words they invented. And that’s why Starcicles owners Rain Shields and Daniel Carlson are down to their last dime. They...

Osprey watchers listening to the sounds from the Columbia Wireless webcam can only hear vehicles passing by after the Orphan Wildlife Rehabiliation Society decided to accepted the last chick from the Osprey nest west of Nelson. The decision came after two of chicks in the next passed away after the father Osprey was killed ...

The Greenwood Improvement Society (TGIS) has received a $10,000 Seed Funding grant from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) to support a feasibility study to determine the need for a senior housing facility in Greenwood. The award of this grant is the first step the Greenwood Improvement Society has made...

Dear Editor: (An Open Letter to Ian Dyck, Manager, Electric Advanced Metering Infrastructure, Fortis BC) Thank you for your package of information regarding the Smart Meter installations in British Columbia. I still feel the insistence by Fortis to install Smart Meters, purchased without sufficient research into the effects...

B.C. Labour Relations Board ruled during the weekend that remedial summer school courses are essential. However, the LBR said in its ruling this decision is reserved for students in Grade 10, 11 and 12 who failed one of the classes and cannot make it up in the next school year. No word how that affects summer school classes...

Saturday 12th of July 2014 - FREE admission - Greenwood, BC celebrates it’s 117th birthday! Located 27 kilometers west of Grand Forks, BC you will find Canada’s smallest city (population less that 700!) celebrating from 8am till dusk with a multitude of activities to entertain family and friends of all ages and likes. Fueling...

Letter to the Editor: To date, we have had the most secure voting procedures available!  Why would we want to change that?!  We've been told that electronic vote counting would likely be faster...  But, may there be some unintended consequences? The quality of electronic voting machines cannot be determined "because their...