Youth Climate Corps B.C. and Wildsight are returning to communities across the East and West Kootenays this summer, with youth crews tackling wildfire prevention, ecosystem restoration and other local climate projects during the program’s sixth season.
A local environmental organization says it will seek a judicial review of the provincial government's decision not to require an environmental assessment of the proposed Zincton Resort.
Residents are invited to camp, explore, and learn with Wildsight along the Columbia River through a ‘Columbia River Conversations’ Field Tour designed around interactive learning.
Wildsight says it will seek the order for the endangered mountain holly fern after BC's environmental assessment office decided the Record Ridge project doesn't need to be subjected to a full-blown review.
Today’s showers provided a nice reprieve as the Kootenay Native Plant Society and Wildsight’s Youth Climate Corps joined forces at Nelson’s Monarch Waystation, planting over 60 native nectar species that will support migrating monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
Northern Health has confirmed the Code Orange at the Mackenzie and District Hospital has ended, and emergency department services have returned to normal as of 3:30 this afternoon (Wednesday).