February 28, 2022 Kootenay Girls Will Hear From Leading Women Kootenay Girls Will Hear From Leading Women in Health Care & STEAM on International Women’s Day! Quantum Leaps: Girls in […] Read more
February 25, 2022 Teck’s Third Elk Valley Water Treatment Facility Now Complete Teck’s water treatment facilities are achieving approximately 95% removal of selenium and nitrate from treated water. Read more
February 09, 2022 Fernie is Growing! Statistics Canada today released updated Population and dwelling counts that reports that the City of Fernie has grown by 924 residents in five years. Read more
February 03, 2022 KAST is Fostering Innovation in the Kootenay’s Kootenay Association for Science & Technology (KAST) is providing programming to local tech entrepreneurs and businesses in the Kootenay by […] Read more
January 25, 2022 Fernie Free Press 1899 to 1947 is Online Following an extensive digitization process, the Fernie Museum is sharing a digital archive of The Fernie Free Press from 1899 […] Read more
January 21, 2022 Special Public Avalanche Warning Includes South Rockies, Lizard Range and Flathead The Special Public Avalanche Warning issued Thursday, Jan. 20, has been expanded to include the South Rockies and Lizard Range regions. Read more
January 20, 2022 Terry Cryderman Receives George Majic Spiritus Award Well-loved Fernie local Terry Cryderman has been awarded the 2021 the George Majic Spiritus Award, given by Mayor Qualizza at […] Read more
January 16, 2022 Kootenay Contraption Contest Winners Announced 20 months into the global pandemic, it’s certainly possible our new reality magnified the experience of extreme weather events in […] Read more
January 09, 2022 Fernie Search and Rescue Busy Weekend Fernie Search and Rescue were busy this weekend with two calls to rescue injured snowmobilers from Fernie’s backcountry. Read more
January 06, 2022 “What Narcissus Saw” Gordon Sombrowski I picked up Gordon Sombrowski’s latest collection of short stories “What Narcissus Saw” at Polar Peaks bookstore last month and read it in two sittings. Read more
January 01, 2022 Fernie Extreme Cold with Snowfall! Environment Canada has issued an extreme Cold Warning for Fernie. The combination of this advancing Arctic airmass and overrunning Pacific […] Read more
December 13, 2021 Bear Deaths Worst in Years More than 14 bears have had to be euthanized in Fernie this year, most of them after becoming habituated to people, conservation officers say. Read more