With spring having arrived in Fernie, temperatures are rising, the snowpack is melting, and another ski season is drawing to […]

The Province is responding to the first cases of chronic wasting disease in British Columbia, found in two deer samples from the Kootenay Region.

A recent study published in Conservation Science and Practice points to the Elk Valley as having the highest mortality rate […]

Celebrate bats during Halloween, as Halloween approaches images of scary bats become commonplace. This is the perfect time of year […]

As fall approaches bear sightings are increasing and this season there are obvious reasons. This season we are seeing increases […]

After decades of bighorn sheep being killed by traffic just south of Radium, a wildlife overpass will finally be built […]

Do you know an educator in the Columbia Basin who demonstrates excellence in environmental education? The Columbia Basin Environmental Education […]

So you’re skiing up the skin track, head down. You finally break out past the trees into the alpine and […]

An Elk Valley resident received a $15,152 penalty and 10-year hunting ban for shooting and killing a grizzly bear sow […]

Acclaimed author, naturalist and biologist Douglas Chadwick is touring the Kootenays this February to share his latest book, Four Fifths […]

Five local mountain caribou herds have been extirpated (locally extinct) in the last 10 years due to habitat loss.

A little orphaned black bear cub was rescued in Fernie and sent to Northern Lights Wildlife Society (NLWS) in Smithers. […]