It seems the honeymoon is over for Grand Forks city council. Elected in November, the real work of council got underway in January, and here we are, late February, with tension between incumbent and newly elected councillors. At their last meeting councillor Michael Wirischagin challenged the mayor’s leadership in allowing ...

Grand Forks city council’s meeting became tense when councillor Micheal Wirischagin challenged Mayor Brian Taylor on his leadership Monday night. Shortly after the start of the regular council meeting, Wirischagin announced that he was withdrawing from the meeting accusing other councillors of subverting council’s decision ...

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...

It's been a tough financial year for Boundary non-profit organizations. But there may be some hope at the end of March now the provincial government announced it will be reinstating the community gaming grants to groups who support adult arts and sports, animal welfare and environmental concerns. “Through an open public...

Is it any coincidence that the winner of this year's Best Actor award for comedy or musical in the Golden Globes was Jean Dujardin, the lead actor in Spotlight Films upcoming film The Artist and that he beat out the co-lead in Spotlight's last film, Brendan Gleeson of The Guard? Maybe. According to the critic site Rotten...

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)...

Grand Forks RCMP attended three single vehicle accidents this past week due to poor road conditions. The first two accidents happened in the same area on Highway 3 around Collins Road, east of Grand Forks. The first accident was on Thursday, Feb. 16 at 4:49 p.m. The driver of a 2001 Pontiac Sunfire lost control while it was...

Local theatre productions give audiences a chance to project themselves into another reality and take a break during our seemingly long winter. This weekend’s Rivers Edge show, Toad at Toad Hall, was well produced with excellent acting, clever set design and lively music. But the show fell short of its mark for the audience,...

To the Editor; Bruce Davidson an activist from Walkerton, Ontario who has made over one hundred presentations will tell his story in Grand Forks in March. Remember Walkerton, over 2300 seriously ill, seven deaths and over 40 left with serious health problems, all from cow manure in one of the town’s water wells? Al Grant from...

The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Education for School District 51 met at the School Board Office in Grand Forks on Tuesday, Feb. 14. During the meeting, the board listened to a presentation about the new After School Sports Program, passed a policy on child protection and approved new district-wide regulations on...