The Fernie Chamber of Commerce board of directors has voted to sign a lease for the organization’s long-planned co-working space in downtown Fernie. The resolution…
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CBCB film festival stopping in Fernie
With a nod to the highly-successful Big Rock Brewery Film Festival’s ‘Eddies’ awards, the Craft Brews of the Columbia Basin (CBCB) Film Competition was developed…
Wolverine film coming to the East Kootenay
This November, an exclusive regional film tour dives into the world of the fierce yet vulnerable wolverine. Wildsight and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative…
Managing conservation lands ‘natural’ choice for biologist
Faces & Places: Richard Klafki Story by Nicole Trigg Kootenay Conservation Program Growing up in Golden, it was only natural that Richard Klafki was passionate…
Local author to share about sexual assault, PTSD and recovery
September book tour to hit six locales First-time author D. M. Ditson of Invermere will launch her award-winning memoir Wide Open with a book launch and…
CBA another layer of strain clouding infrastructure projects
By Doug Clovechok Columbia River-Revelstoke MLA During the month of July, the Federal Government made a major funding announcement for highway improvements in British Columbia….
BC Land Matching Program growing strong
The B.C. Land Matching Program, delivered by Young Agrarians, has been picking up steam since launching in the Columbia Basin in July 2018. The YA…
Revelstoke RCMP seek info on July 18 crash
If you were driving on Highway 1 east of Revelstoke early in the morning of July 18 and witnessed a truck crash, RCMP would like…
Fatality crash closes Highway 1 west of Golden
Highway 1 is closed between Revelstoke and Golden this afternoon as officials investigate a fatality crash that occurred earlier today. On July 17, at approximately…
MP Stetski celebrates Avalanche Canada funding
Kootenay—Columbia MP Wayne Stetski is pleased to celebrate a one-time endowment of $25 million in federal funding to Avalanche Canada, funding initially earmarked in the…