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Selkirk College Castlegar campus. File photo

Selkirk College vocational faculty contract ratified

Three-year contract for Selkirk College faculty ratified by Post-Secondary Employers’ Association

 

L-R: Columbia Basin Trust President Johnny Strilaeff, Nelson-Creston MLA Brittny Anderson, B.C. Minister of Citizens’ Services Lisa Beare, RDCK Area H Director Walter Popoff and Columbia Basin Trust board chair Jocelyn Carver joined together on Sept. 7 to announce the $82-million project. Photo: Betsy Kline

$82-million project bringing better internet to 59 Kootenay communities

Communities from Edgewood to Grasmere to Donald to benefit from project

 

Plaid Lake is one of many mountain lakes in the West Kootenay. Photos: Jim Bailey

Take the 2023 West Kootenay alpine lakes survey

Data from lakes help local biologists and conservationists in science-based decision making

  • Aug 10, 2023

 

Rossland’s Gold Fever Follies troupe visited Castle Wood Village on July 26. Photo: Submitted

Gold Fever Follies kicking up their heels for Castlegar and Trail seniors

Rossland’s Gold Fever Follies troupe visited area care homes in July

Rossland’s Gold Fever Follies troupe visited Castle Wood Village on July 26. Photo: Submitted
Trail angler Geno LeRose lands a nice Gerrard rainbow on Kootenay Lake. The Kootenay Lake’s 2023 Angler Incentive Summer Events is underway and anglers are encouraged to keep their catch as a way of restoring the kokanee salmon population. Photo: Submitted

Angler’s Atlas teams up with Kootenay Lake incentive program

Anglers can submit photos of catch on Kootenay, eligible to win up to $50,000 in prizes

Trail angler Geno LeRose lands a nice Gerrard rainbow on Kootenay Lake. The Kootenay Lake’s 2023 Angler Incentive Summer Events is underway and anglers are encouraged to keep their catch as a way of restoring the kokanee salmon population. Photo: Submitted
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Navy to conduct drills on Okanagan and Kootenay Lakes

The exercises will be seen and heard from the Kelowna and Nelson Marinas July 25-Aug. 1

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The West Kootenay U13 Wolfpack are 2023 provincial champions. Photo: Submitted

West Kootenay U13 Wolfpack wins Lacrosse Provincials

West Kootenay Minor Lacrosse Association includes players from Castlegar, Trail, Rossland, Nelson

The West Kootenay U13 Wolfpack are 2023 provincial champions. Photo: Submitted
42-year-old Michael Allan Struthers of Castlegar has an outstanding warrant for assault.

UPDATE: Wanted Castlegar man may be in the Nelson area

42-year-old Michael Allan Struthers cut off his ankle monitor bracelet

42-year-old Michael Allan Struthers of Castlegar has an outstanding warrant for assault.
YRB are working to replace a culvert and fix the sinkhole on Hwy 22 between Rossland and Warfield. Photo: Jim Bailey

YRB: Rossland hill sinkhole a work in progress, anticipates Bombi opening

YRB highways manager says sinkhole on Hwy 22 is under repair, will keep traffic moving

YRB are working to replace a culvert and fix the sinkhole on Hwy 22 between Rossland and Warfield. Photo: Jim Bailey
An end to reliability issues at the West Kootenay Regional Airport may be in sight. Photo: Betsy Kline

GPS landing procedure to increase reliability at Castlegar airport progressing

West Kootenay Regional Airport manager says plans to improve reliability are entering “end phase”

An end to reliability issues at the West Kootenay Regional Airport may be in sight. Photo: Betsy Kline
Richard Cannings - From the Hill

West Kootenay MP has concerns about proposed electoral boundary changes

MP Richard Cannings is asking constituents to send him their concerns

Richard Cannings - From the Hill
The U15 Kootenay Crusaders booked their spot in the BC U15 Zone League championships Mar. 18-22 in Fort St. John. Photo: Jen Duckworth

U15 AA Crusaders clinch provincial berth

Crusaders head to league championship March 3-5, then to Fort St.John for provincials March 18-22

The U15 Kootenay Crusaders booked their spot in the BC U15 Zone League championships Mar. 18-22 in Fort St. John. Photo: Jen Duckworth
Students across the district will have access to more mental-health supports. Photo: John Boivin

New mental health and substance-use supports coming to SD20

More supports coming for children and youth in Kootenay-Columbia School District

Students across the district will have access to more mental-health supports. Photo: John Boivin
The low water levels in the Arrow Lakes are very noticible at Scotties Marina north of Castlegar. Photos: Betsy Kline

Arrow Lakes dip to levels usually seen only once a decade

Water levels in the Arrow Lakes are unusually low

The low water levels in the Arrow Lakes are very noticible at Scotties Marina north of Castlegar. Photos: Betsy Kline
Photographer Jennifer Small captured this elk waiting out the snow storm in Ootischenia last week.

ECOLOGICAL COMMENT: Old MacDonald had an elk?

A weekly column written by Selkirk College Recreation, Fish and Wildlife students

Photographer Jennifer Small captured this elk waiting out the snow storm in Ootischenia last week.
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Female hockey jamboree

90 players from across West Kootenay participated in Trail’s female hockey jamboree

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Ron Simms (right) is the winner of this year’s first grand prize, a 2022 Polaris Side by Side ATV from Main Jet Motorsports. From left: Kirsten Clarke of the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Kevin Westerhaug and Aaron Seminoff of Main Jet Motor Sports, Dale Williams of the BC Wildlife Federation, Gordie Grunerud of the West Arm Outdoors Club, and winner Ron Simms. (Contributed)

Creston retiree hooks first Grand Prize of Kootenay Lake derby

Ron Simms is the new owner of a 2022 Polaris Side by Side ATV courtesy of Main Jet Motorsports

  • Dec 1, 2022
Ron Simms (right) is the winner of this year’s first grand prize, a 2022 Polaris Side by Side ATV from Main Jet Motorsports. From left: Kirsten Clarke of the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Kevin Westerhaug and Aaron Seminoff of Main Jet Motor Sports, Dale Williams of the BC Wildlife Federation, Gordie Grunerud of the West Arm Outdoors Club, and winner Ron Simms. (Contributed)
Adult zebra and quagga mussels are approximately 3 cm in length. Photo courtesy of Columbia Shuswap Invasive Species Society

West Kootenay waterbodies remain free of invasive mussels

265 samples were taken from area lakes and rivers

Adult zebra and quagga mussels are approximately 3 cm in length. Photo courtesy of Columbia Shuswap Invasive Species Society
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Kootenay man arrested for voyeurism at Beaver Valley Arena

Trail RCMP arrest a man for recording young women while changing at a hockey arena in Fruitvale

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Angler Kerry Reed landed this nice November bull trout on Kootenay Lake. Photo: Submitted

West Kootenay Fishing Report: The bite is on

A drop in water temperature means rainbows are coming to the surface

Angler Kerry Reed landed this nice November bull trout on Kootenay Lake. Photo: Submitted