As part of its ongoing commitment to reduce wildfire threats, the B.C. government is providing more than $907,000 in community resiliency investment grants to support projects in the Southeast Fire Centre.

The BC Wildfire Service plans to conduct a 12-hectare prescribed burn in the Crawford Creek area as early as Thursday, May 2, 2019, to help reduce wildfire threats and prepare the area for replanting.

The Rocky Mountain Trench Ecosystem Restoration Program, in conjunction with the BC Wildfire Service, BC Parks and the Rocky Mountain Trench Natural Resources Society, plans to conduct a series of ecosystem restoration burns in the Premier Lake area.

The BC Wildfire Service plans to conduct a 36-hectare ecosystem restoration burn in the Centre Hill/Ingram Creek area, about seven kilometres north of Midway. 

Improved high-speed internet is on the way for 26 communities in the Kootenays, bringing people opportunities to learn, connect and better expand their businesses.

Families at the Selkirk College Children’s Centre are now paying no more than $200 a month per child as part of the B.C. government’s universal child care prototype project.

Category 3 open fires are again permitted in the Boundary Fire Zone.

As a result of the efforts of firefighting crews and recent favourable weather conditions, all of the Syringa Complex wildfires are now classified as “under control,” which indicates the fires have received enough suppression to ensure they will not spread further.

The BC Wildfire Service, in partnership with the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, is planning to conduct a 63-hectare prescribed burn approximately seven kilometres north of Midway in the Centre Hill/Ingram Creek area.