July 12, 2022 BC Wildfire Bans Category 2 open fires The BC Wildfire Service has issued a Category 2 open burning ban that will go into effect at 1pm Mountain […] Read more
June 25, 2022 BC Wildfire Service issued a Category 3 open burning ban The BC Wildfire Service has issued a Category 3 open burning ban that will go into effect at 1pm Mountain Time (Noon Pacific) on June 30th. Read more
June 24, 2022 City Announces Annex Dike Closures The Annex Dike Improvement project is getting underway next week, and will involve significant disruptions over the summer months including […] Read more
June 22, 2022 Fernie Hot Stretch of Weather statement issued Environment Canada has issued a warmer than average hot stretch special weather statement is in effect for the Elk Valley. […] Read more
June 15, 2022 Bike Race consumes Search and Rescue Local Search and Rescue volunteers have been consumed with rescuing cyclists from the Tour Divide race these last few days. […] Read more
June 13, 2022 Fernie Activates Emergency Operations Centre Due to the current heavy rainfall and forecasting being provided by the Province, the City of Fernie has activating an […] Read more
April 14, 2022 Grass Fire on Dicken Road Area Fully Extinguished Local firefighters responded to a grass fire on Dicken Road in the Hosmer area late Wednesday afternoon. “A contract crew […] Read more
February 14, 2022 Skier hits tree and dies in Fernie It is with the greatest of sadness that a 65-year-old Calgary man is dead after a skiing incident at Fernie […] Read more
February 06, 2022 Elk Valley Nordic Centre Receives Tourism Infrastructure Funding More than 50 new tourism projects throughout B.C. are receiving a total of $21.3 million for shovel-ready infrastructure projects. The […] Read more
January 28, 2022 New and Improved Ways to Enjoy the Outdoors People looking for ways to enjoy the Columbia Basin’s great outdoors will soon have even better options thanks to upcoming […] 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 16, 2022 Fernie’s La Niña Snowpack Fernie’s current snowpack sits at a 30 year average and the long range forecast suggests that La Niña plans to […] Read more