Skilled trades students in the Southeast Kootenay School District will benefit from a three-year, $15-million investment by the B.C. government to support youth trades programs with the purchase of new trades-training equipment.

The B.C. government is investing more than $600,000 in provincial tourism sector associations to support tourism marketing activities in the Kootenay Rockies, announced Shirley Bond, Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training and Minister Responsible for Labour.

Up to 144 East Kootenay residents will be receiving the training they need for jobs in their communities thanks to the federal-provincial partnership under the Canada-B.C. Job Fund Agreement.

When Vogue Magazine puts one of your ski resorts (Revelstoke Mountain Resort) in the spotlight and when your mountains are recognized worldwide as iconic symbols of Canada, you know you’re in a beautiful part of B.C.

The Province is supporting the largest professional sporting event ever to be held in Cranbrook, when the Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling Tour Challenge comes to the city from Nov. 8-13.

Premier Christy Clark announced an investment of nearly $1.76 million in the College of the Rockies for skills training in high-priority trades. 

A snowy December is an ideal time to be in the Kootenay Rockies and specifically Cranbrook says former chief commissioner for the British Columbia Treaty Commission and Cranbrook born and raised, Sophie Pierre.

It’s time to enjoy what travellers from around the world came to the Kootenay Rockies for this summer: B.C.’s incredible tourism experiences.