By Keith Liggett The most depressing thing in the world is going up to the ski area a couple weeks […]

By Keith Liggett So someone’s switched the drink at RCR’s Calgary headquarters from Kool-Aid to Red Bull. On November 1, […]

Forty years ago, several local Art Guilds joined together to form the Fernie and District Arts Council. Ten years later […]

To actively promote a tale of Euro promises, blithely broken, resulting in the vast degradation of Indigenous lands is beyond simply tone deaf.

This has been a year for the record books. The wrong records. A world-wide Covid pandemic closed much of the […]

David Wilks, mayor of Sparwood, was quoted in the Free Press, ““Don’t go to Fernie unless there’s a need to…”

In reading the many comments to my previous piece, Fernie. Essential Travel for Alberta!, I must admit I may have gone too far.

On Saturday at 2PM in Lot 2, the nose-in parking on the left as you drive toward the Wolf’s Den, held thirty-two cars. Twenty-one of them had Alberta plates.

In my youth, Christmas arrived by train.

The ski area, and our town, died on March 16. Suddenly and dramatically, we drove off an unseen cliff.

The City must work with the employees to better their wages and move them out of “affordable housing” into their own homes, so the next group of residents can follow in their footsteps.

Next Saturday we’ll get back half of normal. The ski hill is opening, with some conditions.