Castlegar News

Lower Mainland real estate was heating up across the board in November. Photograph by: Glenn Baglo, Vancouver Sun files The 2009 property assessments - the values on which British Columbians' 2010 municipal tax bills will be based - are on the web and in the mail.

A brewing tax revolt by B.C. forestry companies has gained a legal foothold after the B.C. Supreme Court found a Vancouver Island community cannot boost its tax rate for forest lands.

A Port Alberni city councillor wants to roll back municipal wages and hike taxes to compensate for $3.3 million it is owed by Catalyst Paper.

The Zellstoff Celgar pulp mill says it has decided to start paying its municipal taxes again after improved dialogue with city officials.

Providing extra security for power facilities is the cost of doing business during events such as the 2010 Winter Olympics, BC Hydro says.

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

A Mass will be celebrated in St Mary's Church in Cranbrook, British Columbia at 11.00am on Saturday, December 19 to remember GAA Founder Joseph P. Ryan.

B.C. rejects plea to aid municipalities in tax dispute It's up to local politicians to ensure property taxes don't scare away businesses and kill jobs, Finance Minister says Patrick Brethour Vancouver - From Monday's Globe and Mail Published on Sunday, Dec.

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.