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School trustees voted on Monday to hire an engineering firm to hopefully solve Rossland schools’ water woes once and for all.

Solicitor General Shirley Bond's pleas to celebrate responsibly went out the window along with the Vancouver Canucks' Stanley Cup hopes Wednesday night, leaving the city and the province to clean up and assess their crowd control strategy.

“If people don’t start participating in the legion, we’re going to lose it,” said legion president Doug Halladay.

Thousands of ballots for B.C.'s harmonized sales tax referendum were being stored in post offices after Canada Post locked out its urban employees across the country Wednesday.

Canada Post said it had to act, Ottawa mulls legislation

Consolidating Twin Rivers Elementary and Castlegar Primary into one campus and reconfiguring Rossland Secondary School as a K-12 school by September 2012 were among several new facilities recommendations announced during the School District 20 (SD20) board of education meeting Monday night.

Council's Monday meeting opened directly into controversy as the mayor issued a statement that rebuked Coun. Laurie Charlton for publicly accusing the CAO Victor Kumar of libel on Feb. 14. The drama ended with Charlton's expulsion from the council chamber.

Delivery of three million voting packages for the HST referendum could be disrupted by postal workers' rotating strikes across the country.

The Class of 2011 at Rossland Secondary School celebrated graduation on Friday with an afternoon parade through the city followed by ceremonies at the school.

The fuel treatment program to protect the perimeter of Rossland from wildfires started again on May 12 after being shut down by snow on Dec. 10, 2010, but project co-ordinator Don Mortimer says a big part of community wildfire protection depends on the active participation of private landowners.