Users of the trail—located minutes from Fernie on the Montane property—now includes people in wheelchairs, athletes on adaptive mountain bikes, families with strollers and more.

The Columbia Basin Trust supports five projects with $1.5 million to build 118 new units

The Columbia Basin Trust will be sponsoring ten (10) half-tuition scholarships to the three-day St. Eugene Writing Workshops running May […]

The Fernie Public Library is becoming more high-tech with support from Columbia Basin Trust’s Community Technology Program.

The Columbia Basin Trust increases recreation opportunities with $484,000 for 29 trail projects

This three-year, $6-million program helps communities create welcoming, safe and vibrant multi-use outdoor public spaces that support community gathering and programming.

Children and youth will be growing their confidence and getting healthier thanks to 34 projects receiving over $500,000 from Columbia Basin Trust’s Basin PLAYS Capital Improvement Grants.

This program helps create jobs and increases employment opportunities for recent college and university graduates, a workforce that is essential when it comes to meeting the Basin’s current and future business needs

With patches of snow on the ground, it’s a day for jackets and hoods up to protect ears from the cold. It’s Wednesday, November 14, 2018, and a group of ninth graders is traipsing across an abandoned hay field outside Cranbrook with loppers and shovels in hand to oo and learn in wild backyards.

There are many ways to support a healthy and diverse environment, from restoring habitat for reptiles and Grizzlies to educating school children about ecosystems.

After more than three years of hard work, residents in over 12,000 rural households, in more than 62 communities in the region, will have access to new or improved high-speed Internet.

Whether biking to work, hiking peaks or walking pets, Columbia Basin residents prize the trails in our communities and surrounding areas.