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The hard-hit forest-based community of Mackenzie took another step Friday towards recovery as its shuttered pulp mill, down for two years, was purchased by Asian-giant Sinarmas in a $20-million deal.

It was TV host and do-it-yourself guru Bryan Baeumler's Godfather III moment. The job started as the innocent renovation of a second-storey home office for the face of HGTV's Disaster DIY.

Eric's World of Leisure will reopen in a temporary location a block away by Wednesday, says owner Shirley Moore, after a spectacular fire gutted its store on Quebec Street near First Avenue on Friday night.

Victim Services Week is a fine opportunity to attend a number of workshops that have to do with dynamics of abuse and crime.

The LiveSmart B.C. energy efficiency incentive program will continue for another year thanks to the inclusion of $35 million in the 2010 provincial budget, energy mines and petroleum resources minister Blair Lekstrom said Friday.

A Prince George man whose family has been devastated often by cancer is fighting back with his vision for a cancer-free world.

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.