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The Canadian Red Cross will be holding a bullying prevention workshop in Sparwood

Police are trying to track down vandals who have been spray painting racial slurs and lewd drawings on cars and houses in Sparwood.

The B.C. government has presented legislation to restrict mining and oil and gas development in the Flathead watershed in southeastern B.C., formalizing an agreement reached with Montana in 2010.

The Fernie Heritage Library hosted a special event for middle school students last week, when an author came to Fernie to talk about his latest book, based on the Titanic.

The Fernie Women’s Resource Centre has moved location and is expanding the services offered to women and the community. Established in 1979, the centre has been operating out of the Fourth Avenue location but after nearly a year of planning have found a new home at 1592 10th Avenue. “Our old space was getting too small for the amount of people attending the centre and we simply needed more space,” says outreach worker Lauren Fox.

Conservation groups have welcomed new legislation to ban mining and energy development in B.C.’s Flathead River Valley, but say the Flathead remains far from protected.

Fernie is to take centre-stage in a family Christmas movie that shows how Santa and his pack of talking dogs save the happiest town in the world.

Kootenay Columbia Member of Parliament (MP) David Wilks introduced a Private Member’s Bill in the House of Commons in Ottawa that recognizes the seriousness of kidnapping a person under the age of 16 years.

Several rare white ‘Spirit Bear” cubs have made an appearance in the community of Elkford. These cubs are unique, mysterious and still yet unexplained what is causing their coats to be white. In 2008 a white bear was seen in Elkford, caught and relocated and no other sightings have been reported of white bears until now.

Country star Brad Paisley, his wife actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, chat show host Bonnie Hunt and Olympic medalist skater Scott Hamilton were among a group of VIPs that spent Monday night playing bingo at Fernie Legion after arriving in town on a train.