Castlegar News

An online Canada Day pet photo contest hosted by Black Press is pitting proud pet owners against one another in the quest for a fun prize package.

An online Canada Day pet photo contest hosted by Black Press is pitting proud pet owners against one another in the quest for a fun prize package.

TELUS is investing $400,000 in Castlegar this year to enhance its wireless and wired broadband Internet coverage for area residents and businesses.

During the month of June, golf professionals, staff and members will golf from sunrise to sunset to support those living with ALS.

By Sheri Regnier - Trail Daily Times Published: June 11, 2013 1:00 PM Updated: June 11, 2013 1:11 PM Faster Internet service and a first time look at Optik TV is coming down the wire for residents in the City of Trail.

Twin Rivers Elementary kids Ben, Darrin, Brent, Lexi and Kendra are sold on the soft surface beneath them, if and when a tumble or stumble happens.

An online Canada Day pet photo contest hosted by Black Press is pitting proud pet owners against one another in the quest for a fun prize package.

On Monday, June 3, 2013, Cst Rob GARDNER, from the Castlegar RCMP, attended Twin Rivers Elementary school to talk to the students about the upcoming Cops for Kids Ride.

A full day sponsored workshop for arts and cultural organization staff and board members is being offered in Castlegar in late June.

Castlegar Sunfest - famous for its showers of rain in previous year's events, shined with rock and roll attitude to some of the best entertainment to ever grace Kinsmen Park.

Information table does brisk business during afternoon recess of Gathering of Eagles anti-pipeline event, June 2 at the Brilliant Cultural Centre A far-reaching and relatively heavily promoted event designed to marshal support against the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline and expansion of a Kinder Morgan pipeline in Southern B.C. went off Sunday ... (more)

Nelson's Charlie Pears-Smith topped the Kootenays' Best Singer championship. Her prize package includes $1,000, a day and a half worth of studio recording time, and opportunities to sing at the Kaslo Jazz Festival and the Kootenay Festival.

By Val Rossi - Trail Daily Times Published: May 29, 2013 12:00 PM Updated: May 29, 2013 12:42 PM School District 20 employees who keep Greater Trail schools clean, safe and inclusive have voted to strike after contract negotiations for a higher wage hit a wall last month.

Host Vern Gorham named Gabriel Macdonald and Charlie Pears Smith for first and second place in the Nelson's Best Singer Contest last February.

By Aaron Orlando - Revelstoke Times Review Published: May 29, 2013 1:00 PM Updated: May 29, 2013 1:49 PM "The city's net financial position continues to deteriorate and our borrowing levels, although well within provincial limits, continue to increase.

Convergence for a Pipeline and Tanker Free BC will be landing June 2 at the Brilliant Cultural Center near Castlegar from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. This event will feature Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs and Joan Phillip, Penticton Band councillor; Gerald Amos, former chief councillor of the Haisla First Nations, ... (more)

Castlegar's Kelsea Dorosz and Mateo Villa hold the trophies won in the local segment of the Kootenays' Best Singer competition last month.

Convergence for a Pipeline- and Tanker-Free BC will be landing June 2 at the Brilliant Cultural Centre near Castlegar, 1-5:30 p.m. and on June 1 in Nelson.

To qualify for the Kootenay Energy Diet and the energy assessment required to access the LiveSmart BC Efficiency Incentives program, participants must live within Central Kootenay Regional District or the Kootenay Boundary Regional District and be an electric customer of ForticBC Inc., Grand Forks electricity utility, Nelson Hydro or a natural gas ... (more)

Lots to smile about as Mayor Chernoff hands over $15,000 to Castlegar Sunfest Committee president Nicole Beetstra at City Hall on Friday, May 24.