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...

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 ...

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 ...

Grand Forks resident, Christopher James Cusack, 47, has been charged with two counts of arson endangering life in connection with the fires at the Grand Forks Hotel and the Winnipeg Hotel in the early morning hours of Wednesday, March 7. Within two hours of the fires being reported, Grand Forks RCMP had Cusack in custody and...

Experience the tradition of a Venice Carnival at the Grand Forks Art Gallery Society’s 1st Annual Masquerade Ball.   Gallery 2 will host this great new fundraiser and provide an elegant atmosphere for the Venetian style Masquerade.  Featured live entertainment is  “Mad Dog 20  20”.  Dance through the evening and enjoy a late...

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...

A woman driver who is nine months pregnant is lucky to be alive after a Chambers truck hit her on Highway 3 by Billings Road on Tuesday, February 28. The 20 year-old driver from Christina Lake had been turning left in her 2004 Ford Taurus when the Chambers truck, driving in the same lane, struck the vehicle on the drivers...