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The B.C. government is distributing $10.1 million in new grants to help rural communities stabilize their economies and create long-term local employment.

Building permit applications are piling up at Revelstoke City Hall, and Nicole Fricot, community economic development director, is busy.

“I don’t spend a lot of time looking back at where we’ve been—I always focus on where we’re going.” —Don McCormick, mayor of Kimberley

Cranbrook Tourism, a society created and incorporated in 2015, is to market and promote Cranbrook and region as a preferred, year-round destination

AirBnB has a major economic presence in the Kootenays.

Ryan Watmough has recently been hired by the Regional District of East Kootenay to be the new Economic Development Officer

Bob Wright, long-time volunteer and board member of Community Futures Central Kootenay, was honoured for his years of commitment and service

Community Futures Greater Trail was recognized at the British Columbia Community Futures AGM for its outstanding business loan program.

The seven credit unions that encompass the Kootenay, Boundary and Columbia Valley regions are creating a single credit union

$3.6 million for new three-year program to maintain, create new spaces

Young Jaime Dekkers is the new owner/operator of Cranbrook Bookkeeping.

See the highlights from Columbia Basin Trust's 2016/17 Annual Service Plan Report

EKC helped established the CDCF endowment fund to benefit the Salvation Army’s Soup Kitchen in 2004.

The hot springs resort is located on the shores of Arrow Lake north of Nakusp and was evidently sold to a lower mainland investor in March or April.

The decision, announced by the BC government on August 8, will be in effect for September classes.

Columbia Basin Trust provides $900,000 this year through its new Energy Retrofit Program.

Trust provides $500,000 to new community building.

In this episode of Kootenay Business Podcast, publisher Keith Powell, talks with Tom Thomson, Executive Director of the Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce.

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

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.

First time scholarship awards three students around the Basin.

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

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

The City of Trail is pleased to announce it has received a $4.6 million grant from the Airports Capital Assistance Program (ACAP)

Columbia Basin Trust helps SAR teams purchase rescue equipment

Trust providing $2M for energy conservation upgrades.

Metal Tech Alley has been created with the input and engagement of multiple stakeholders, citizens, business leaders and community officials.

Kicking Horse Coffee is one of the Kootenay’s largest employers with over 110 people working out of the company's Invermere manufacturing facility.

The Junior Dragons Den Championship was held on May 6th at the Charles Bailey theatre in Trail, B.C.

Under the agreement, Teck Metals Ltd. will be granted a 20-year lease to use Fortis' interest in Waneta to produce power for its industrial operations in Trail

Unlike other funding initiatives, the Community Cash Awards provide EKC members, and the community, the opportunity to ‘invest in’ and select the award winners.

The event saw students pitch everything from automotive diagnostic apps to sophisticated branding companies, in a fast paced live show format.

The Valley Zip Line Adventures site is in an ideal location, situated just off of Highway 93/95 and a major route for tourism.

Junior Dragons Den is a youth-based business competition that encourages entrepreneurial skills among students from Grade 7 to college and university level.

The emergency department expansion will address immediate space and service challenges and accommodate projected patient care needs for years to come.

Intrawest is a North American mountain resort and adventure company, delivering distinctive vacation and travel experiences to its customers.

The actions outlined in the strategy will begin this spring, and will be funded in part by $750,000 over three to five years from Columbia Basin Trust.

A provincial grant of $159,600 will be used to establish and staff an economic development office for the Columbia Valley.

Columbia Basin Trust contributes $500,000 for new community centre

Columbia Basin Trust approves 38 recreation infrastructure projects

Matt Cockell, who will be relocating his family to Cranbrook, plans to take over the role of President and General Manager

The grant will go toward new construction and modern safety improvements to the Middletown Crossing—Highway 3/43 intersection.

Many of the affordable housing units operated by non-profit organizations in the Columbia Basin need energy retrofits, such as replacing boilers and windows.

Settling into Golden is as straightforward as balancing the books—just ask Dutch transplant Marloes van Lent

The Neil Muth Memorial Scholarship honours Neil Muth, the Trust’s president and chief executive officer from 2005 through 2016, who passed away last November.

To support the important work Avalanche Canada does, Columbia Basin Trust is funding the non-profit organization with $450,000 over three years.

B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone stated that most of the funding, $450 million, is for improvements to a four-kilometre section of the road.

Castlegar is buzzing these days with the exciting prospect of building a new, ultra-modern Chamber of Commerce and visitors centre building.

Columbia Basin Trust program helps strengthen environmental well-being.