Selkirk College is addressing the increased demand for new renewable energy technical and design skills, with their new Advanced Certificate In Renewable Energy Technology launching in May 2012 at the Castlegar Campus. This intensive six-week program will build on an individual’s existing education and experience, to provide...

High winds are to blame for the long power outage experienced in Christina Lake and Grand Forks yesterday. A tree fell on the line, explained Neal Pobran, communications officer for FortisBC at approximately 4:25 p.m. on Monday, Mar. 5. Some local businesses were inconvenienced when machinery experienced power surges that led...

You know spring can't be far off when the annual Seedy Saturday Seed Share and Exchange hits Grand Forks. This year the event, which is hosted by the Grand Forks and Boundary Regional Agricultural Society (GFBRAS) and the Boundary Organic Producers, runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 10 at the Holy Trinity Anglican...

A rally supporting the teachers's strike will be held in Gyro Park, Grand Forks, tomorrow, Tuesday, March 6 at noon. Similiar rallies will be held on the same day and time across the province including one scheduled for the provincial legislature in Victoria. The event is being sponsored by the Canadian Union of Public Employees...

Rebuilding in tough economic times takes a lot of drive from those who make up their community and for the east coast island of Cape Breton trade unions have been instrumental in creating change. Filmmaker Nik Green’s first feature length documentary, aired at the World Traveling Film Festival in Grand Forks last week, captured...

By now it is not news to our readers that the B.C. government is pushing through their legislation to force teachers back to work after they won the right to strike last week. What is disconcerting is that this strike action is just the beginning of what could well be a labour tsunami. Teachers have been negotiating with the...

Milfoil removal, riparian efforts, library funding, a seniors housing project, the Phoenix Ski Hill contributions and the woodstove exchange program were all discussed constructively at the Regional District Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) Area C Town Hall meeting on Wednesday, February 29. The annual budget information session was...

All B.C. teachers will be out on the streets and not in their classrooms as they strike over the next three days -- Monday, March 5, Tuesday, March 6 and Wednesday, March 7 -- in protest of Bill 22 imposed by the government late last week. All School District 51 schools will be closed over those three days and buses will not...

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...

Hot buttons for the meeting of Area D residents Monday touched off debate over unsightly premises, animal control and the Kettle River water study. A group of over 70 people gathered at the annual meeting which gives director Irene Perepolkin and the Regional District of the Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) an opportunity to get...