The Cariboo Regional District hopes to improve its emergency response protocol in light of last year’s devastating fire season.
Advocates for seniors care in the community were delighted when in September of last year — after years of advocating for it — the Interior Health Authority announced it would re-open Deni House.
The international movement may have been popularized by the book Pay It Forward and the 2000 movie bearing the same name starring Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osmont, but 10 years on the concept of encouraging small acts of kindness is increasing its already broad appeal.
City council will be one councillor short come June 1 until the municipal election in November.
Councillor Surinderpal Rathor was the lone dissenting voice as council approved the first three readings of its 2011 financial plan bylaw.
As Richard Mason and other community members have discovered you can fight City Hall.
Williams Lake Staff Sgt. Steve McLeod is moving on.
Dick Harris, the Cariboo-Prince George riding Conservative candidate, didn’t begin campaigning until Sunday due, in part, to illness — a full seven days after Stephen Harper went to the Rideau Hall requesting that Governor General David Johnston dissolve parliament.
Williams Lake Mayor Kerry Cook has called the ranking of the community in the bottom three of Canadian cities by a national online magazine as “not a true reflection of the quality of life in our city.”
Representatives from Tolko Industries have asked council to reconsider its 2011 industrial tax rate.
Organizers of a Tri-Nation pilot project held at Punky Lake Wilderness Camp in March hope the camp will be the first of many aimed at bringing youth together to foster respect and understanding.
Despite the announcement by Premier Christy Clark last week to boost gaming grants by $15 million, many of the organizations that were excluded from receiving gaming monies under her predecessor’s government continue to be left out in the cold.
NDP MLAs Doug Donaldson and Scott Fraser, both critics in the opposition party, were the two who remained behind Wednesday morning to tell members of the media what they and their colleagues had discussed with various community stakeholders.
One of Christy Clark’s first decisions as B.C. premier to increase the province’s minimum wage is being viewed locally as a positive move.
There may be an independent choice in the Cariboo Chilcotin in the next provincial election. That’s the thinking of Tsilqot’in National Government chair and Anaham chief Joe Alphonse.
The Williams Lake Indian Band and Spanish Mountain Gold Ltd. have signed a protocol agreement.
A senior living in the 400 block of Sixth Avenue North was the victim of a home invasion over the weekend.
Employees may soon be getting back to work at Tolko’s Creekside division.
Williams Lake resident Brian Marshall was one of many Canadians who experienced Japan’s largest earthquake first hand.
It wasn’t a debate, rather a meeting of like minds as NDP leadership candidates gathered at the Overlander Hotel Monday evening.
