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School board chair Lyn Hall remained tight-lipped Friday following a teleconference with Education Minister Marge McDiarmid over an offer by parents to buy the Dunster Fine Arts Academy in an effort to have the school reopened by as soon as this Sept

An offer to purchase the Dunster Fine Arts Academy has been submitted to the school district by a group of parents whose children were attending the school.

Taseko Mines is dismissing a study that claims B.C. Hydro customers will be subsidizing its Prosperity copper-gold mine, proposed for southwest of Williams Lake, to the tune of $35 million a year.

A man accused of trying to steal a tandem trailer from a local business made an appearance in Prince George provincial court on Wednesday. Robert G Lang, 48, of Pink Mountain, B.C.

Gamblers spent a five-year low of $48.2 million on the slot machines, bingo games and poker tables at Treasure Cove Casino during the 2009-10 fiscal year, according to a B.C. Lottery Corporation annual report released Thursday.

A fire in Bull Canyon, about 85 kilometres west of Williams Lake, was fanned by winds Wednesday, causing it to reach 50 hectares.

Thompson Creek Metals Co. Inc. (TSX:TCM) has agreed to buy Terrane Metals Corp. (TSX-V:TRX) for $650 million in one of the biggest transactions in Vancouver's mining scene so far this year.

The vehicle belonging to a missing elderly Alberta couple was seen in the Prince George area within the last five days.

While a nation holds its breath for a missing Mountie in Yukon waters, a Prince George RCMP member is breathing bottled air at the scene. Cpl.

Single-family homes sold for an average $212,631 in northern B.C., according to an update from the B.C. Real Estate Association. The total represents a $15,064 drop from the month before, but is $1,481 higher than the average for July 2009.