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 has amended an area restriction order that is in effect for the Syringa Complex wildfires in the Southeast Fire Centre.

Effective at noon (Pacific time) on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018, Category 2 open fires will once again be permitted throughout the Southeast Fire Centre’s jurisdiction.

The BC Wildfire Service is planning to burn about 100 piles of wood debris near the Copper Ridge subdivision, north of Grand Forks.

There are two changes to the area restrictions on the Syringa Complex. 

As a result of work by firefighting crews and recent rainfall, most of the wildfires that make up the Syringa Complex in the Southeast Fire Centre are now classified as “being held.”