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Walking in Unity

Interior Health and Yaqan Nuʔkiy come together for fifth annual Canoe Walk To commemorate National Addictions Awareness Week, members of Yaqan Nuʔkiy (Lower Kootenay Band), Interior…

Canoe Walk to help bring awareness about addictions

In 2025, from January to the end of June, 143 Indigenous people lost their lives to toxic unregulated drugs in B.C. The rate of Indigenous…

Prescribed burn planned for area north of Creston

The BC Wildfire Service will be supporting yaqan nuʔkiy (Lower Kootenay Band) to conduct a prescribed burn covering up to 4.8 hectares in the Sanca…

Band leads 517-hectare wetland restoration

The Yaqan Nukiy Wetland Project is Canada’s biggest Indigenous-led wetland restoration Since beyond living memory, the wetland at Yaqan Nukiy was a sprawling 7,000-hectare resource…

Restoration burn planned for yaqan nu?kiy grasslands

To help reduce wildfire threats, the BC Wildfire Service will be supporting the yaqan nu?kiy – Lower Kootenay Band, in conducting an ecosystem restoration prescribed…

Prescribed burn planned south of Creston

To help reduce wildfire threats, the BC Wildfire Service will be supporting yaqan nu?iky – Lower Kootenay Band, in conducting a prescribed burn. This burn…

Trust provides over $1 million to 178 organizations

Non-profits to close technology gaps Non-profit, community and Indigenous groups in the Basin will receive support for technology-related initiatives with funding from Columbia Basin Trust…

Army engineer training exercise upcoming near Creston

Creston residents may hear explosions Between February 19 and 21 soldiers from 44 Engineer Squadron, in Cranbrook and Trail will be conducting a training exercise…