Castlegar News

Two B.C. pulp mills say their municipal taxes are too high and they plan to fight them in court.

When a water pipe bursts these days in a British Columbia pulp and paper town, residents better dig out their rain boots.

Raymond Masleck Trail, B.C. - Published on Monday, Nov. 30, 2009 4:19PM EST Last updated on Monday, Nov.

It's been raining so long and so hard up here the ducks have galoshes and the fish use umbrellas! I'm only slightly exaggerating.

Companies that are faced with the challenge of cleaning up toxic wastewater from mining operations will soon have more reliable bioremediation options.

On Friday Nov. 20, at a approximately 3:15 p.m., a pedestrian was struck and killed by a tractor trailer headed west on Highway 3A near Thrums.

How do you get to your health care appointments, including emergencies? Thanks to funding from Area I, thata s the question Castlegar & District Health Watch Society intends to ask in a survey which will be mailed out to every household in Castlegar, and Areas I and J in the second week of November.

An event named Foundersa Day was held in mid-October by Selkirk College to honour the nearly 40 personnel who laid the ground work to get the college off the ground.

Peer Mentoring Groups to help entrepreneurial women in the Kootenays to succeed in business are being launched in Nelson and Castlegar this month by Women's Enterprise Centre.

The IHA has scheduled a flu-shot clinic for those at high-risk of infection for Friday, Nov.

A wide Remembrance Day smile sweeps across Stanley Jenson's face as he puts on his RCAF flight officer's dress tunic for the first time since 1962.

Kootenay Woman is a new publication being published by Black Press. It is about women and for women.

Six of 12 people arrested in a major three-month undercover drug operation in the B.C. interior are women.

Twelve people from throughout the Kootenays are facing trafficking charges after the RCMP broke up a suspected drug ring.

While news is the same on the closure of the Castlegar mill, CEO of Interfor Duncan Davies says from his view, getting operations started is high on the list of priorities.

RCMP in the West Kootenay have charged six Trail residents with alleged cocaine trafficking after a three month investigation using police resources from throughout the province.

Local forestry contractor Gordon a oeBubsa Haugland is going going to be in the international limelight this year after when hea ll appear on Speed TVa s program Dangerous Drives.

Castlegar museum director Debbie McIntosh ponders a mysterious collection of war memorabilia from the Arrow Lakes.

Castlegar Airport is no more. After more than 60 years, the airport has a name change.

Catalyst Paper has challenged its municipal property tax rate in court. Photograph by: Campbell River Courier-Islander, Vancouver Sun files Heavy industry is turning up the pressure on Victoria to step into the tax battle between forest manufacturing companies and resource towns after B.C. Supreme Court ruled last week that its up to government, ...