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The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary has approved a 10-year operating agreement with the Christina Gateway Community Development Association for the Christina Lake Welcome Centre.
School District 51’s new superintendent has begun a comprehensive review of the district’s administrative procedures while continuing work to establish an Indigenous Education Council and responding to employee feedback about communication, trust, employee voice and workload.
A proposed replacement command vehicle for Grand Forks Fire/Rescue carries a price tag of up to $150,000, with the proposed cost to come from Regional District of Kootenay Boundary reserves.
Grizzly Discoveries Inc. is seeking to raise up to $2 million as the company continues fall exploration across its Greenwood-area properties and prepares for drilling planned between October and December.
A Big White developer asked the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary to reconsider the denial of a variance for a Feathertop Way home after the regional district acknowledged the zoning problem had been missed during its own reviews of the project.
Thirteen Boundary-area exemption entries will receive permissive property-tax exemptions from the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary in 2027, covering community organizations, recreational facilities, medical services and land used for public purposes.
The Boundary Sentinel’s entertainment coverage is moving to a new home.
Boundary voters will have choices in municipal, regional district and school board races this fall, with contested mayoral and council elections in Grand Forks, Greenwood and Midway, a two-candidate race for Regional District of Kootenay Boundary director at Christina Lake and contested School District 51 trustee races in Grand Forks and Kettle Valley East.
Christina Lake community and trail groups, joined by a provincial powersports association and RDKB Area C director Grace McGregor, are pressing the B.C. government for action on the Columbia & Western Rail Trail after years of uncertainty over who is responsible for managing and maintaining the corridor.
RDKB agenda puts $25,853 toward Boundary community projects
The Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary Communities is preparing a new Vital Signs report for 2027, the region’s first since 2019, and is seeking financial support from local governments and other organizations across the Boundary.
Drag racing is scheduled for Grand Forks Municipal Airport later this month, with the Grand Forks Drag Race set for Saturday, Sept. 26.
Grizzly Discoveries has identified at least five geophysical anomalies around the historic Mother Lode, Greyhound and Sunset mining areas near Greenwood, and the company is seeking permits to test several of them with drilling this fall.
Big White Ski Resort is spending more than $1 million to expand its Happy Valley beginner area ahead of the 2026/27 ski season, including a new covered conveyor lift for skiers and snowboarders learning on the mountain.
Some floodplain maps still used under the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary’s current bylaw date to 1992 and 1997, as the regional district develops new mapping for Rural Grand Forks and the West Boundary.
Students from West Boundary received StellerVista Credit Union's StellerStudent awards for the first time this year as the program expanded into the West Kootenay and Boundary region.
The discussion around the recent wildfire-related off-road vehicle restrictions got me thinking about more than one temporary ban. It also brought out a lot of strong opinions about e-bikes, trail users and who belongs on our local trails.
Two wildfire restrictions that affected the Boundary through much of August have now been lifted. BC Wildfire Service ended the Category 1 campfire prohibition at noon Sept. 1 throughout the Southeast Fire Centre, several days after rescinding its regional prohibition on recreational off-road vehicle use on Crown land.
A small stem-mining weevil released at three sites in British Columbia this spring is the newest tool in a decades-long effort to control common tansy, an invasive plant that has been established in the Boundary for years.
The 2026 local election field begins taking shape Tuesday as prospective candidates across the Boundary become eligible to file nomination papers for municipal councils, regional district seats and the School District 51 board.
Christina Lake will host the B.C. RCMP Golf Championship for three days in September.
Mountain bikers will return to the trails above Christina Lake on Sept. 13 for the fifth annual Funduro, a local race that raises money for trail maintenance and improvements in Christina Lake and Grand Forks.
Residents in Midway, Greenwood, Rock Creek and several other West Boundary communities could have their electricity intentionally shut off by FortisBC if extreme wildfire conditions and high winds develop at the same time.
Electric vehicle drivers travelling through Rock Creek have a faster charging option after FortisBC added a new 150-kilowatt DC fast charger at the Rock Creek Visitor Centre at Riverside Centre.
Students across School District 51 will return to class Tuesday, Sept. 8, with a shortened first day and classes running Tuesday through Friday during the opening week.
The Border Bruins were forced to move all of their 2026–27 main-camp ice sessions out of Grand Forks after a fire at Jack Goddard Memorial Arena disrupted the club’s access to its home ice.
The BC Wildfire Service will lift its Category 1 campfire prohibition across the Southeast Fire Centre at noon Tuesday, Sept. 1, following recent precipitation and improving wildfire conditions.
Wildfire conditions across the southern Interior have eased enough for more communities to move into recovery, but active fires, access restrictions and evacuation measures remain in parts of the Okanagan and West Kootenay.
The controversy surrounding Nelson’s grizzly family, already the subject of widespread public discussion across British Columbia, took another turn on Aug. 27 when the B.C. Conservation Officer Service killed one of the two yearlings relocated earlier in the month.
For more than half a century, Darryl “Tiger” Milburn was a familiar presence behind the microphone at Trail Smoke Eaters games.
Residents served by FortisBC can pay substantially more for residential electricity than comparable BC Hydro customers, a disparity the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary wants the province and B.C.’s utility regulator to examine.
A new emergency response vehicle is carrying Kootenay physicians to critical 911 calls after community organizations, fundraisers and private donors helped pay for its purchase and outfitting.
Nelson seeks nominations for 2027 Sports Ambassador
Peter Milobar is named leader of an eight-MLA CentreBC caucus, while Elections BC’s Sept. 19 registry continues to list Mike Bernier as party leader
Residents across parts of the Kootenays could see smoke in the coming days as the BC Wildfire Service prepares to support six prescribed and ecosystem restoration burns across the Southeast Fire Centre.
B.C.’s police watchdog has found no connection between police actions or inaction and serious injuries suffered by a youth while in Nelson Police Department custody on Aug. 11.
BC RCMP Major Crime investigators are asking for information about the activities, interactions and movements of 30-year-old Dayna Monk before her death on May 31.
Castlegar Mayor Maria McFaddin has been appointed executive director of Forestry Works for BC, moving from municipal leadership into a province-wide forestry organization as her term at city hall nears its end.
A longtime neighbourhood Home Hardware in Kamloops is expected to close at the end of the year, bringing attention to the mixed conditions facing Canadian-owned retailers even as many businesses report stronger sales of Canadian products.
Thunderstorms in the Lower Similkameen are putting renewed attention on landslide and debris-flow hazards in areas where the Lower Similkameen Indian Band has established an automated slope-monitoring system.
Castlegar and Trail RCMP took several people into custody Tuesday while executing search warrants at properties in Robson and near Waneta as part of a joint drug-trafficking investigation.
A magnitude 3.7 earthquake near Harrop and Procter was felt across several Kootenay communities early Thursday morning.
Silver Star Freestyle is developing an off-season ski and snowboard training facility at SilverStar Mountain Resort, aimed at giving athletes in the North Okanagan access to specialized aerial training without travelling to facilities elsewhere in Canada or the United States.
A B.C. Supreme Court judgment involving Canadians who studied medicine abroad was posted last week as the province continues to require international medical graduates in its Kootenay Boundary family medicine residency stream to complete two years of service within Interior Health.
A historic mine opening near Rossland’s Kootenay Columbia Trail will be permanently sealed, with a three-week trail closure beginning Sept. 28 so crews can complete the work.
Kaslo has adopted changes to its Official Community Plan built around a provincially calculated need for 295 additional housing units by 2041.
Three young people charged with second-degree murder in the Taig Savage case have now pleaded guilty to the lesser included offence of manslaughter, the BC Prosecution Service has confirmed.
Reinhard “Ryan” Lengsfeld, a longtime educator who later made his home in Nelson and became known to West Kootenay residents as a moderator of a regional Facebook discussion group, died Sept. 1 at the age of 74.
University RCMP has introduced low-frequency emergency sirens to its police vehicle fleet, giving officers another way to alert drivers, cyclists and pedestrians who may not hear a conventional siren.
A 54-year-old man was seriously injured after the vehicle he was driving veered off the road and collided with a moving train in Maple Ridge on Monday night.
Creston RCMP are asking for the public’s help locating a 41-year-old man wanted in connection with multiple criminal charges and an alleged breach of court-ordered release conditions.
Dr. Gerald H.G. Nowek, a Vernon-born physician whose obituary describes a medical career that included work in Canada and abroad, died Aug. 28 at Vernon Jubilee Hospital. He was 68.
Reg Longhurst, Creston’s first full-time career fire chief and a firefighter whose service to the community continued for nearly four decades, has died at 86.
The Boundary Sentinel’s entertainment coverage is moving to a new home.
Residents hoping to submit a new application for help paying for wildfire mitigation work will have to wait for another funding round after the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary exhausted its available 2026 FireSmart residential rebate money.
The Regional District of Central Kootenay is preparing to resume compost sales at Salmo, Ootischenia and Creston this fall, with higher prices approved for 2026 and the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary requesting an estimated 115 cubic metres of the finished product.
Mission Creek has entered a three-year window in which many of the sockeye salmon released into the Kelowna waterway in 2023 are expected to return as adults.
The Association of West Kootenay Rock Climbers will bring an evening of adventure storytelling to Nelson on Sunday, Sept. 20.
Big White Ski Resort and the Canadian Ski Patrol’s Ogopogo Zone have received separate 2026 awards from the patrol’s Pacific South Division.