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A 25-year-old man is facing a litany of charges after he crashed a stolen vehicle while trying to run over a group of people outside the Salmo Curling Club, according to police.

Solicitor General Shirley Bond's pre-game 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.

The 1600-block of Columbia Avenue was the site of two rear-end collisions in the span of about two hours on Thursday.

About two dozen Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) members and supporters rallied in front of city hall in Castlegar on Thursday, calling for members of the public to express their concern to the minister of labour.

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.

A policy resolution on Highway 3 improvements was passed unanimously and put into priority at the B.C. Chamber of Commerce AGM in Prince George recently.

Canada Post said it had to act, Ottawa mulls legislation

Frequent users of the Castlegar and District Community Health Centre are wondering why they all of a sudden have to put down a small deposit to use wheelchairs after years of borrowing them for free.

From left to right, Andy Hill, Walde Libera and Cary Price of the Western Command Military Vehicle Historical Society stand in front of a field artillery tractor outside the Castlegar legion on Wednesday last week. The society is made up of enthusiasts who purchase and lovingly restore old military vehilces. The group was in Castlegar as part of its “Freedom Route Tour” through the Southern Interior. For more info about the society, visit: www.westerncommand.com.

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.