Main St. Web

News Headlines from Castlegar, BC

• Finance committee travels province

  The Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services announced today its plans for conducting provincewide budget consultations.

• Sex charges against man linked to Facebook photos

  The Mounties are also trying to identify other young women depicted in nude pictures found on the man's computer to determine whether other charges should be laid.

• Victim - lucky' to survive assault

  By Kim Magi - Castlegar News Published: August 26, 2010 3:16 PM Updated: August 26, 2010 3:17 PM A Castlegar man is being described as a "lucky boy" by police after he survived a serious head injury in an assault earlier this week.

• Doukhobor heritage lives on in southeast British Columbia

  Tucked into the green valleys of southeast British Columbia, a handful of century-old brick houses are mute witness to an old way of life.

• Canada Post not backfilling sick posties: union

  Canada Post is not backfilling letter carriers when they take a day off sick in parts of B.C., according to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, which claims the new policy may be illegal.

• MTI gearing up for 100th batch of Earning Your Wheels grads

  Mountain Transport Institute of Castlegar, B.C. is gearing up to welcome its 100th consecutive graduating class of Earning Your Wheels students this fall.

• bears

  A police officer poses with a bear on July 30, 2010 in this photo at the scene of a grow operation in the Christina Lake area of B.C. where bears were thought to be kept nearby for security purposes.

• NewS.265.20100818123749.072510firebomber_20100819.jpg

  An air tanker drops fire retardant on a wildfire. In initial attack, air tankers drop fire retardant and/or foam on or near small fires to limit their spread until ground crews arrive to extinguish them.

• B.C. woman accused of stabbing elderly father

  RCMP in Castelgar, B.C., have arrested a woman after her father, 73, was stabbed repeatedly Sunday.

• Aerial crews from Penhold have been busy battling B.C. forest blazes

  Penhold-based air crews working tirelessly to suppress B.C. wildfires are finally getting a break this week.