Kimberley, British Columbia

Kimberley is a former mining town turned mountain resort community in BC's East Kootenay, about 30 km northwest of Cranbrook in Ktunaxa homelands, inside the Regional District of East Kootenay. The City runs City Hall at 340 Spokane Street, property taxes and quarterly utility bills, two creek-fed water systems with a daily turbidity index, the Pollution Control Centre and a new wastewater treatment plant project, three-cart garbage, recycling and organics pickup, roads and snow clearing, bylaw and animal control with dog licences, the composite Kimberley Fire Department with open-burning permits, the Kimberley Aquatic Centre, the Civic Centre and Marysville arenas, parks, two cemeteries, building and development permits, business and short-term rental licences, and community grants. The Regional District of East Kootenay runs the Kimberley Transfer Station and the regional evacuation alert system; BC Transit runs Kimberley Transit's on-request and Cranbrook routes; the Kimberley RCMP detachment polices the city; health care is Interior Health's Kimberley Health Centre with the nearest hospital in Cranbrook; schools are School District 6 Rocky Mountain; the Kimberley Public Library has its own board; and marriage licences, health cards and driver's licences are provincial.