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The program provides a wage subsidy to help employers provide part-time employment to full-time high school and post-secondary students.

David was well-known in Revelstoke as a respected journalist, talented artist and active volunteer of many community initiatives.

Fortis is a leader in the North American regulated electric and gas utility industry with total assets of approximately $48 billion.

BC Hydro has exercised its right of first offer to purchase Teck’s two-thirds interest in the Waneta Dam in British Columbia, Canada, for $1.2 billion cash.

The purchase is forecast to have a beneficial financial impact each year, helping to keep rates affordable for BC Hydro’s customers.

The floral business is blooming for MJ's Floral Boutique with a new storefront, walk-in cooler and private office for consultations.

The new transit service is scheduled to run every other week Wednesdays and Thursdays starting on August 2nd.

The first group of students to test out the future of the Silver King Campus got busy in the freshly completed welding shop.

From July 10 to 14, eighteen youth aged 12 to 14 took part in a Mind Over Metal camp at College of the Rockies.

Selkirk College’s Kootenay Studio Arts (KSA) was one of the featured stops for the popular reality television show.

A family-run rafting company, Apex Rafting is owned by Ralph and Debbie Koerber.

Community Futures Central Kootenay is a not-for-profit community economic development organization with offices in Nelson, Nakusp, and Creston.

Starting August 1, 2017, bus riders in the West Kootenay Transit System will benefit from extended service on several routes.

The Invermere Valley Echo was founded in 1953.

If you are on evacuation alert or think you will be put on evacuation alert, there are some important steps you will want to consider.

Selkirk College is partnering with Purdue University’s Agile Strategy Lab to offer a three-day training course that helps people lead complex collaborations.

The cabinet consists of 20 ministers and two ministers of state. Two ministers are from the Kootenays

A major construction project is underway at Fort Steele Heritage Town, near Cranbrook, with the historic Windsor Hotel undergoing sweeping interior renovations.

With the FBC Tasting Room proving increasingly popular over the past couple of years, it became clear that a revamped and larger space was required.

Kootenay Rockies Tourism Association would like to extend our support to our communities and industry in this time of need.

Rockies Law offers a wide variety of services to individuals, small business, national and multi-national corporations and government.

The Show & Shine portion of the event will be moving from the Springs Course Driving Range to the Copper Point Golf Club's driving range.

First time scholarship awards three students around the Basin.

Stephen Wik buys print business from father Don Wik, merges it with Murray's Office Plus.

Construction on the new restaurant is slated to begin soon, with a projected opening in early 2018.

Teck is a diversified resource company committed to responsible mining and mineral development.

The Ktunaxa Nation announces that as of June 20, 2017 the St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino is once again solely owned by the four Ktunaxa communities.

The Elk Valley's Coal Valley Motor Products, based in Fernie and owned by Ralph Will for many years, has been purchased by the Denham Automotive Group.

The Community Solar Garden is now operational and supplying power to the Nelson Hydro power grid.

Koocanusa Village is launching with new ownership and management

The purpose of the Cranbrook Business Walk is to help foster a prosperous business climate in the area.

Amid an extensive renovation and expansion at the Fernie Brewing Company, they have also launched a new seasonal Ale called Base Camp, West Coast Pale Ale

Cinch Homes is a new, full-service modular and manufactured home dealer in Fernie

Joy Global Canada is now in the process of moving into Sparwood's old Finning facilities

Columbia Basin Trust’s Built Heritage Grants fund 16 projects with $1.4 million.

The former Firehall, built in 1931 or so, was on the market for several years and was listed with Philip Jones, of Royal LePage East Kootenay Realty, Cranbrook.

Hamilton College’s Slocan Narrows Archaeological Project brings post-secondary students together to excavate history uncovered in First Nations pithouses.

A trade that has a multitude of career paths, carpentry is key to building a stronger province.

On June 23 and 24, students from five studios will showcase their concepts, designs and skill-sets at the annual KSA Year End Show & Sale.

Walls encouraged graduates to, in contrast to some world events, approach each other with kindness and a caring for our future and the future of our communities

Based in Cranbrook, B.C., Eagle Plains continues to conduct research, acquire and explore mineral projects throughout western Canada.

Co-founders Julie Taylor and Natasha Benson recently opened Cranbrook's first dedicated cold-pressed juicery called The Raw House.

Kaslo's new Angry Hen Brewing Co. is expected to open for the 2017 summer season

Foundational work of the Cranbrook Tourism Society continues to move forward in the Key City

Chris Hadfield is the keynote speaker for Columbia Basin Symposium

The Trail Airport (YZZ) is a busy place these days with the start of construction on a new terminal building with substantial completion slated December 2017.

Construction on the City of Trail’s new $8.3 million Riverfront Centre is well underway

The Kootenay ICE Hockey Club have signed James Patrick to a three-year contract as the new head coach of the team and 8th in Franchise history.

Patrick Gauvreau, the City’s Roads and Ground Superintendent, has been appointed the new Utilities Superintendent of the City’s Public Works Department.

When news broke that Invermere’s Kicking Horse Coffee had sold in a $215 million deal to Italy's Lavazza Group, it reminded us of the company’s humble beginning