Community

Residents across four Kootenay communities will come together later this month to develop local solutions to challenges involving transportation, food and child care.

Police officers will trade their uniforms for cycling gear this weekend as the Cops for Kids Ride rolls through the Kootenays, raising money for children and families facing medical and other crises.

With traffic expected to pick up over the final long weekend of summer, drivers across the Kootenays are being reminded that flashing amber lights at the roadside carry the same Slow Down, Move Over requirements as flashing emergency lights.

An international collaboration has resulted in a book that looks at Grand Forks' little-known role in the Japanese-Canadian internment.

An unpretentious building at Christina Lake with connections to the Japanese-Canadian internment might be added to the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary's heritage register.

The Kootenay Savings Community Foundation is marking its 30th anniversary with $100,000 in grants for community projects across the Kootenays.

Wheels of Hope needs more volunteer drivers across B.C. to help cancer patients get to treatment appointments.

A book to be launched this week explores the life and work of a man who created some of the most iconic photographs in West Kootenay-Boundary history.

Accidental drowning deaths in British Columbia have increased by more than 50 per cent compared with the same point last year, according to preliminary figures released during National Drowning Prevention Week.