Skilled trades students in the Kootenay Lake and Kootenay-Columbia school districts 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 has distributed $176,528 in compensation for municipal property taxes to the City of Nelson.

Adult learners in Nelson will benefit from one-time targeted funding of $63,400 for Selkirk College to support literacy programs.

Students, teachers and staff at Kootenay Lake school district’s Central Education Centre will benefit from $410,000 in provincial School Enhancement Program funding.

Canadians will be better equipped for the well-paying middle-class jobs of today and tomorrow as a result of a federal and provincial investment of $16.18 million in Selkirk College.

A project to stabilize a rock slope on Highway 31 north of Kaslo, in the vicinity of Lost Ledge Provincial Park, is now complete.

Comments are being accepted until Nov. 21, 2016, on a discussion paper released today as part of a comprehensive timber supply review for the Arrow Timber Supply Area.

A project is now underway to stabilize a rock slope on Highway 31 north of Kaslo, in the vicinity of Lost Ledge Provincial Park.

New mobile radio communication protocols are being implemented throughout British Columbia to improve safety for resource road users.