The Fernie Food Action Strategy is a first step toward a vision of a resilient local food system and improved community-level food security in the Elk Valley.

We may all have stories of when and how we realised the importance of Labour Day and the support staff in our daily lives – the labourers, sanitation workers, servers, cleaners, house help, tradesmen, healthcare workers and everyone else.

Fernie Fire and Rescue Fire Protection Officer Brett Uphill is trading his structural firefighting gear for wildland gear and joining a team that will provide Structural Protection to the Doctor Creek Fire near Canal Flats.

With Teck matching all donations up to $50,000 before Sept 30th, the Fernie Fox Hotel donation will be leveraged to help achieve the goal of raising $300,000 to purchase the ultrasound machine.

Like most things in 2020, the Fernie Chamber’s annual Business Excellence Awards will be looking a little different as they […]

While the pandemic and ensuing financial issues forced the Fernie Writers Conference to postpone for a year, the steadfast support […]

Wildsight needs your help start Fernie’s 1st local food store to connect local food and local people year-round. Local food doesn’t have to end when summer does.

That Mountain Life’s latest family mountain biking edit from their summer travels. Erich Leidums, father, comments, “Biking as a family […]

Recently the East Kootenay Foundation for Health launched a fundraiser to purchase a new ultrasound for the Elk Valley Hospital. […]

Just last week, scientists announced that the amount of selenium pollution in Lake Koocanusa should be kept to less than half of what Teck is already sending downstream

The Fernie Museum has been a staple in Fernie for decades. Originally it had a home in the old Nunnery […]

Last Saturday night at 6 a crack appeared in the wall of our isolation. To be truthful, and historically accurate, […]