Platform Properties has announced it will soon begin construction of a 10,000-square-foot plus retail space at Williams Lake’s Prosperity Ridge.
The brother of a man murdered on the Sugar Cane Reserve three years ago is making a public appeal in the hope that someone will come forward with new information necessary to solve the crime.
Media reports have suggested that the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association is considering three options to kick-start stalled labour talks with the province’s teachers. Those options include a cut in pay, a lock out or a transferring of the costs for teachers’ benefits to the union.
The release of a former violent sexual offender on conditions into the community of Horsefly is raising concerns.
Cariboo-North MLA Bob Simpson is more than a little dubious about Premier Christy Clark’s recently released jobs plan.
Karen and Steve Mahon know first hand the difference the B.C. Children’s Hospital makes in the lives of sick children and their families.
The City’s economic development work might draw the ire of some; however, Mayor Kerry Cook maintains that work is part of an effort to “regroup and reshape how we are going to move forward with economic development.”
The Liberal government’s Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services made a stop in Williams Lake Wednesday.
Cariboo-Prince George MP Dick Harris is back in the House.
The Paradise Cinema and Salvation Army are teaming up to help the food bank. On Tuesdays, through the month of October during any show, the cinema will accept three non-perishable food items in exchange for $3 off the price of movie admission.
John Les presented the Liberal government’s take on job creation to members of the Williams Lake Chamber of Commerce Thursday afternoon.
When one thinks golf does literacy come to mind? Probably not.
City council backed away from presenting a united front on lobbying the province to remove the requirement of B.C. seniors to pay medical services plan premiums during the upcoming Union of British Columbia Municipalities meeting.
Council has settled on the fluoridation referendum question it will put to residents as part of the municipal election Nov. 19.
When Rebekah Deschner decided on a two-month trip to Bali earlier this year, what she had in mind was a little rest and rehabilitation. It was also a chance to realize a long-held dream of starting a health centre in the Indonesian country.
The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure says the 148-Mile-House project south of Williams Lake is scheduled to be completed near the end of November.
The renovation of Deni House is on time and on budget.
The recent musings of the province’s Minister of Environment Terry Lake about the future of the Pacific Carbon Trust has the attention of some stakeholders. Publicly Lake has said that B.C.’s carbon neutrality program works but needs changes.
Williams Lake’s Royal Canadian Legion branch 139 hopes the old proverb the squeaky wheel gets the grease — or in this case the greater property tax exemption — rings true.
A permit by the Ministry of Energy and Mines to allow an expansion of the Mount Polley Mine has the Williams Lake Indian Band considering its options.
