Behind the Wheel – The use of vehicle impoundment as part of an array of penalties to discourage improper driving behaviour [Read more]
Behind the Wheel – Something must have struck a nerve lately as I have received a number of requests to deal with cyclists [Read more]
Behind the Wheel – What’s behind me and why should I care? I’m driving down the highway and I’m certainly [Read more]
August long weekend proving fatal on BC roads. RCMP investigators from the Golden Detachment and the Trans Canada East [Read more]
Behind the Wheel – Limited speed motorcycles on the highway shoulder. I applaud the green attitude of those people [Read more]
Travel planning for highway-driving in Banff and Yoho National Parks over the Canada Day Long Weekend. Parks Canada. To help [Read more]
Trans-Canada Highway claims three more lives. Revelstoke RCMP. Revelstoke RCMP members are currently (1:30 pm, July 23) at [Read more]
Parks Canada. Visitors can expect some traffic delays in Banff and Yoho National Parks over the Canada Day long-weekend. Although [Read more]
MLA Report, June 18. Last week, Spencer Chandra Herbert, the opposition critic for tourism, culture and the arts was in the [Read more]
Behind the Wheel – It is not uncommon to watch a vehicle pull up in the parking lot of a service station or convenience [Read more]
Behind the Wheel – It’s that time of year again, sunny and dry with a chance of mindless smokers. I watched another [Read more]
Tips for traveling in hot weather with a child or pet. We hear the same cautions every year as the hot weather approaches [Read more]
Behind the Wheel – Here’s an new angle on a continual problem, that of other road users failing to yield to emergency [Read more]
Aug 14-15 – Columbia Basin Culture Tour of Fernie, Kimberley, Cranbrook and Creston – a project of the Columbia [Read more]
“crossroads (n) – 1. place where roads intersect, junction, interconnection; 2. turning point, defining moment.” [Read more]
Behind the Wheel – “Haven’t you got anything better to do?” This was a common response from drivers [Read more]
Behind the Wheel – I’ve always wondered about the driver in the far left lane as I used the on ramp to enter [Read more]
Behind the Wheel – I am guessing that most people see the code 3 operation of an emergency vehicle as something that [Read more]
Columbia Valley RCMP and Parks Canada. Following yesterday’s motorcycle fatality, Columbia Valley RCMP were back in [Read more]
Behind the Wheel – I saw a hitch hiker this morning sitting with his back against the left turn signal post on the [Read more]
- Vehicle impoundment as a penalty
- Radium car show 2010
- Kootenae House National Historic Site
- Wilmer, historic village with spectacular mountain views
- 2010 Greywolf Cliffhanger Challenge
- Environmental stewardship of BC parks lacking
- Really, not me
- Columbia Valley RCMP incidents, Aug 25-30
- ‘A deliberate act of deceit and arrogance’
- Crews make progress on Nine Bay Lake fire (updated)
- Invermere heliport
- Former mayors join BC Conservative strategy group
- Careless smokers
- Columbia Valley RCMP incidents, Aug 20-22
- Economist says HST is a tax increase
- BC budget highlights
- Edgewater to discuss revitalization (June 22)
- Accidents, road closures in Kootenay National Park (updated)
- Fairmont accident sends dogcatcher to hospital
- FRP acquired by Northwynd
- BC restaurants hit hard by HST
- Head-on collision east of Golden kills 6 (updated)
- The amazing legacy of the Morigeau family
- Invermere doctor killed in train accident
- BC has lowest minimum wage, highest poverty rate
- Accidents, road closures in Kootenay National Park (updated) (31)
- BP begins drilling near Fernie (29)
- BC restaurants hit hard by HST (14)
- Canada Day -- celebrating without a soap box (11)
- FRP acquired by Northwynd (11)
- Courtenay natural pharmacy raided, closed (10)
- The amazing legacy of the Morigeau family (8)
- Parents messing with hockey (6)
- Sometimes obeying the law can be dangerous (6)
- Anti-HST initiative succeeds, but Elections BC delays (6)
Events
Sep 17-18, Radium Hot Springs – Classic car enthusiasts are gearing up for the 21st Annual Columbia Valley Classics [Read more]
Sep 5, Panorama – Imagine a late summer day golfing on one of the most beautiful golf courses in the world. The [Read more]
Sep 18, Lake Windermere – 15th Annual Lakeshore Cleanup. In conjunction with the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup [Read more]
Visitor Guide
The visitor to Kootenae House National Historic Site stands in a seemingly empty field, surrounded by majestic mountains which overlook the peaceful [Read more]
Wilmer, British Columbia, is a tiny community situated on one of the benches overlooking the Rocky Mountain Trench, just a stone’s throw from Invermere [Read more]
In 1964, the Cranbrook Courier wrote of the Morigeau family, “Possibly no other family has had such an influence on the affairs of both white and [Read more]
