By Larry Halverson/Friends of Kootenay It is hard to believe that there are creatures so small that they can live and grow between the upper…
Second Steamboat Mountain Music Festival July 6
The second annual Steamboat Mountain Music Festival will be an affordable, family-friendly, all day event in Edgewater on Saturday, July 6. Performers include RedGirl and…
Corrina Girling Memorial to support new ICU
After hearing the announcement of a new six-bed ICU unit for the East Kootenay Regional Hospital, Dave Girling of Cranbrook Dodge took no time in…
140 projects to get funding
2013/2014 CBT Community Initiatives and Affected Areas Programs funding approved The Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) board of directors June 7 approved funding for…
Search and Rescue holding regional training event in Elko
Search and Rescue teams from across the Kootenays will be meeting in Elko this weekend for SAREX 2013, a weekend of training designed to improve…
Three seriously injured in Skookumchuck crash
Three persons are in serious condition after a two-vehicle crash on Highway 93/95 near Skookumchuck on June 9. A Kimberley RCMP officer traveling through the…
Wildsight’s Classroom With Outdoors begins across the Basin
Field trip program gets students in touch with their environment Wildsight’s award-winning environmental education program, Classroom With Outdoors, is back! Now in its 13th year,…
Search now focused along Findlay Creek
Two males (18 and 21) who were reported missing early Sunday morning (June 9) have not been located. Police were called around 2:30 a.m. after…
Search on for two men west of the Flats
Invermere, Kimberley and Cranbrook search and rescue units are searching for a possible Columbia Valley resident and an Alberta resident between Whitetail Lake and Canal…
New leadership at Railway Museum
Damon Colgan is the new Director of the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel, replacing Garry Anderson who retired at the end of April after running…