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Baldy Hughes Therapeutic has received a $37,500 grant from the Spirit of the North Health Care Foundation to bring medical services to the facility.

The emergence of a lower-than-average snowpack should erase any concerns about flooding this spring but won't help when it comes to wildfires, says environment minister Barry Penner.

Anyone who wants to see how CSI-like science is done should check out the College of New Caledonia's medical laboratory technology open house April 19 during National Medical Laboratory week from April 19 to 23.

The emergence of a lower-than-average snowpack should erase any concerns about flooding this spring but won't help when it comes to wildfires, says environment minister Barry Penner.

An air quality advisory issued Thursday afternoon was continued this morning. The advisory was issued because of high levels of fine particulate air pollution due mainly to road dust, said the B.C. Ministry of Environment and Northern Health.

Developers of the Commonwealth Health Centre say they want to meet and beat the city's requirement for six townhouses and instead are aiming for a 40- to 60-unit residential and retail complex on the Sixth and Quebec downtown property.

Two women were pronounced dead at the scene after their vehicle crossed the centre line and collided head on with an east-bound five-ton truck on Highway 16 West near Mapes Road east of Vanderhoof Thursday night at about 9:13.

A chemical-fuelled blaze turned Eric's World of Leisure into a pillar of fire and smoke that could be seen from the hospital Friday night.

Shooting flames drove back firefighters and fears of volatile chemicals forced police to evacuate at least one city block as a blaze struck a Quebec Street business Friday night.

The hard-hit forest-based community of Mackenzie took another step today towards recovery as its shuttered pulp mill, down for two years, was purchased by Asian-giant Sinarmas.