The RDEK Regional Parks Plan is being amended to include two new parks: the Morrissey River Access in Electoral Area A and Elko River Access in Electoral Area B.

Recent progress on a proposed new coal mine in the Elk Valley highlights government inaction on the region’s growing water pollution crisis.

In its aim to support people and communities in the Columbia Basin, Columbia Basin Trust is celebrating the release of its new Columbia Basin Management Plan 2024–2034.

Wildsight is calling for an interim moratorium on logging and road building in core southern mountain caribou habitat until permanent protections are in place.

The Regional District of East Kootenay Board of Directors has completed its first review of the draft five-year financial plan, which is open for public review

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 project like a firehall for a small city like ours is bound to create a lot of conversation, debate, and both opposition and support.

During the sixteen years I served as councillor and mayor for the City of Fernie, I was involved in decision-making […]

Concerns regarding the impacts of record-low snowpacks on B.C.’s freshwater supplies are mounting following the release of the most recent snow survey report.

By Keith Liggett There is a gross mis-understanding in the discussion about the eviction of the Blue Toque. This eviction […]

The Columbia Basin benefits from the wide range of food that is grown right in the region. Now, 26 farms […]

The Regional District of East Kootenay has just released a Climate Action Plan engagement summary, including the results of the recent public survey.