Shuswap Indian Band, Tobacco Plains Indian Band and ʔaq̓am Community are working with BC Housing on a new project to improve the quality of on-reserve homes in the East Kootenay area.

There will soon be more opportunities for B.C. youth interested in agriculture, with a funding increase to 4-H British Columbia aimed at increasing the participation of urban and Indigenous youth.

Cranbrook residents have real-time air quality data available for their community, thanks to a newly installed monitoring system.

First Nations, industry and members of the public now have easier access to science-based information on freshwater supply and demand in the Kootenay-Boundary region, with the release of the new Kootenay-Boundary Water Tool.

The provincial government has issued an order to make sure nests, dens, salt licks and other important wildlife habitat features (WHF) are protected when forestry and range activities are carried out.

Fish biologists will be busy catching and releasing burbot on Moyie Lake during the last two weeks of February for hatchery egg collection.

A community meeting for B.C.’s first Poverty Reduction Strategy will take place in Cranbrook on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018.