An interim report has revealed what Williams Lake residents and residents in other B.C. communities think about current forestry practices.
One local rancher is frustrated, predicting the recently released Forest Practices Board’s annual report will “fall on deaf ears.”
Fox Mountain resident Peter Kitto wants to help educate the public about the rules around ATV and dirt bike use.
The complainant in an alleged conflict of interest involving Coun. Surinderpal Rathor is unhappy with the direction the City has taken.
Smart meters will soon be coming to your household and your business.
A new report from Smithers-based Northwest Institute (NWI) has come down hard on the provincial environmental assessment office’s processes for reviewing proposals, particularly as it related to Taseko Mines’ Prosperity project.
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency is likely to have its budget and staff cut according to recent national media reports.
The provincial government has released its expenses for the 2010/11 fiscal year that includes MLAs remuneration, travel and living allowances while in Victoria.
The City has approved spending $25,000 on a fluoridation communication strategy.
According to B.C. Stats, the unemployment rate increased in the Cariboo from 7.1 per cent in June 2010 to 7.4 per cent in June 2011.
Due to a lack of funding, the Northern Shuswap Tribal Council has discontinued its Cariboo Chilcotin Weekend University program.
Percy Guichon, chief of the Alexis Creek Indian Band, and Tsi Del Del Enterprises of Chilanko Forks have received the Forest Products Association of Canada/Assembly of First Nations business leadership award.
Cariboo Chilcotin MLA Donna Barnett has called a pamphlet distributed in the riding and several others regarding the cost of the HST to citizens a “scare tactic.”
The Interior Health Authority has released its master site plan for Cariboo Memorial Hospital.
The B.C. Cattlemen’s Association and the NDP forest critic have lined up behind one Big Creek rancher who believes the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations’ policies for logging in the area are extreme and damaging his livelihood.
The sprinkler protection unit is still so new it doesn’t yet have the decals of the Williams Lake Fire Department to identify it.
The provincial government has accepted the auditor general’s recommendations regarding the operation of the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office.
It was both good news and bad that Staff Sgt. Warren Brown delivered to City council Tuesday night in his quarterly crime report.
There are now some numbers to attach to the City’s new Industrial Revitalization Tax Exemption bylaw.
Teachers across the province have voted 90 per cent in favour of initiating job action come September.
