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Water Resource Mapping for Wildfire Suppression
12+ hour, 7+ min ago (495+ words) We're helping emergency responders find and access water more quickly," said Paige Thurston, Program Manager with Living Lakes. By compiling local knowledge and water monitoring data, this project is working to protect homes, lives, and ecosystems from the impacts of…...
Column: Birds and insects are disappearing. That should concern us all.
22+ hour, 32+ min ago (312+ words) Part of the problem, as Carson reported, is that studying phenomena in labs, flasks and growth chambers doesn't mimic real world conditions, where wind and rain carry molecules into air, soil and waterways, causing effects that can take months or…...
The numbers are in: BC drivers still have lessons to learn after Occupant Restraint and Distracted Driving Month
21+ hour, 41+ min ago (154+ words) It may seem like distracted driving is worse than ever, but this year's Occupant Restraint and Distracted Driving campaigns suggest that drivers in March 2026 have not gotten much better or worse compared to March 2025. Overall, BC Highway Patrol wrote slightly…...
Eight former KIJHL member teams, including Castlegar Rebels, breakaway and create entirely new hockey league
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (256+ words) Eight former members of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL) have announced that they will create their own independent league starting in 2026-27, called the Western International Junior Hockey League (WIJHL), and will no longer be affiliated with the KIJHL,…...
Drive Smart BC: The Walking School Bus
2+ week, 1+ day ago (66+ words) Rossland Telegraph The Society for Children and Youth BC (SCYBC) provides a definition: There are two different walking school bus models currently operating in our province. Some routes are run by a paid Walk Leader trained and supervised by SCYBC....
City of Rossland Updates Spring Clean-Up Program for 2026
2+ week, 1+ day ago (298+ words) The City of Rossland is making changes to its Spring Clean-Up program beginning in 2026, in response to rising costs, increased volumes of materials and resource limitations. As part of the City's 20262030 Draft Five-year Financial Plan, staff identified that Spring Clean…...
Column: Simultaneously Socialist and Canadian? It seemed possible then.
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1267+ words) [My prophecy: he will win] [Note: some lines were omitted to emphasize the socialist over the unionist message] Canadians" truly original contribution, to the world history of the political Left and a theory of just social order and wealth-sharing, was…...
Kick Up Your Heels at the Family Square Dance Party
3+ week, 1+ day ago (234+ words) The Rossland Council for Arts and Culture and Trail & District Arts Council jointly present'The Family Square Dance, an experience for kids of all ages and their families to enjoy together. The show is on Sunday, March 29 at 3 pm at the…...
Analysis: The war on DEI reflects the quiet normalization of white nationalism, and not only in the U. S.
3+ week, 1+ day ago (622+ words) Political theorist Hannah Arendt warned that authoritarian politics rarely begin with spectacles of repression. More often, authoritarianism advances through routine administrative decisions that appear technical or neutral but gradually reshape public life " a kind of bureaucratic normalization of injustice she…...
B. C. prepares for 2026 wildfire season
3+ week, 2+ day ago (441+ words) The BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) has offered specialized training, increased the use of technology and invested in additional equipment to better protect people and communities during the 2026 wildfire season. Ahead of the 2026 wildfire season, BCWS has more than 600 year-round positions…...