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New detachment two-thirds done

Carrier Lumber captured the Exporter of the Year category and New Gold mining corporation was named the Prospector or Developer of the Year at Northern B.C. Business and Technology Awards on Wednesday, part of the annual B.C. Natural Resource Forum.

For every dollar a B.C. employer invests in training an apprentice, that employer receives an average $1.47 in return.

The current B.C. auditor general was doing too good a job to be reappointed by a Liberal government, charged a local NDP candidate.

Using forestry techniques to reduce the risk of wildfire is part of the plan to get as much mid-term timber supply as possible out of the provincial forest.

Six persons are in custody and one person remained in hospital Thursday after what Prince George RCMP are alleging was a horrific sexual assault of a male youth in the city earlier this week.

A $6 billion announcement for northern B.C. was made in Prince George at the B.C. Natural Resource Forum. The dominant theme of the day, among the panel discussions and keynote speeches, was liquid natural gas.

Support staff at the College of New Caledonia have agreed to a new two-year contract that will boost salaries two per cent in each of those years.

The process of getting the core group of volunteers in place for the 2015 Canada Winter Games will advance a step next week.

An influx of patients with the flu is causing overcrowding at UHNBC this week.