Creston Valley Merges with Kootenay Lake to Become Newest Imagine Kootenay Partner Community
Can you imagine yourself living, working and doing business in the heart of the Kootenays? Then Creston Valley-Kootenay Lake could be the place for you – and everything you need to know about relocating to the region can now be found at imaginekootenay.ca/.
Canal Flats emerging as a place for entrepreneurs, home buyers
This uncovered gem of the Kootenays has more to offer than what meets the eye. A new excitement is starting to creep into a century-old mill town in the East Kootenay. The Village of Canal Flats, beautifully positioned between Columbia Lake and Kootenay River in the Columbia Valley with Crown Land on either side, […]
#BCTECH Summit l Here’s What You May Have Missed!
THANK YOU for joining us at the 2017 #BCTECH Summit! Over the course of two days in March, we welcomed 5,500 attendees to the 2nd annual #BCTECH Summit to showcase the breadth of BC’s tech sector and to explore technology’s impact in transforming the way we work, live and play. Here are some 2017 highlights: […]
RED Mountain Hits $10,000,000 Goal!
RED Mountain Resort hit its $10 million crowdfunding campaign goal last month. Last summer, RED Mountain Resort launched a previously unheard of effort in the resort business called “Fight the Man, Own the Mountain” on Start Engine, with the goal of securing $10 million in reserved investments. Well, RED made that happen a few weeks […]
Hiring: Education Program Assistant EcoSociety’s Kokanee Creek Nature Centre
West Kootenay EcoSociety works to preserve wild places, air and water for future generations; to take action to reduce the crisis of climate change; and to promote sustainable local food systems. If you are passionate, organized, love children and people of all ages, and are pursuing a career in education, we want you to join […]
Heading to #BCTECH Summit? Be Sure to Find Us!
Attending British Columbia’s biggest ever technology business conference? Here’s how to find your Kootenay contingent friends and fun… Imagine Kootenay will be hanging out with our friends and colleagues from KAST in the Innovation Corridor (upper floor) along with MIDAS and Selkirk College in Research Row. The LCIC will be at the #BCTECH Summit as […]
CBT Puts New Economic Development Plan Into Action
With a vision for economic growth in the Lower Columbia, the Columbia Basin Trust is putting a new economic development plan into action. The Trust is purchasing a commercial building in the Waneta Industrial Park near Trail and, with the help of a local tech industry entrepreneur, expects the new facility to offer up new […]
#yourbetterlife = Revelstoke!
Revelstoke. As expressed so succinctly on the Tourism Revelstoke website to describe living in this small Kootenay city: It’s a rare feeling. It’s an epic experience. It’s The Real Stoke. And right they are. Revelstoke takes tremendous pride in its rich heritage and spectacular scenery. This is a community that has succeeded in diversifying its […]
Mobile Business Licences Cut Red Tape for Kootenay Companies
Three new agreements involving eight local governments have been reached in the Kootenays, allowing small businesses to operate in multiple jurisdictions with a single business licence – cutting red tape while freeing up time and money. The Mobile Business Licence program is a partnership between participating municipalities, facilitated by the Province, which allows small companies […]
Life-Work Balance to the Max! A Kootenay Example
The potential for creating the life you want, free of the needless complications, stresses and anxieties of the conventional rat-race often associated with more urban environs – a life-work balance – is becoming increasingly available here in the Kootenays. One Rossland resident is embodying that balance to the utmost, having left his big city, big […]