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Bioenergy is going to play a central role in the transformation of the forest sector, although the fledgling industry is not by itself sufficient to ensure the sector is attractive to investors, forest industry analyst Don Roberts said Thursday.

School districts will have to pay much less HST money than was feared even at the start of this week. School District 57 officials said they had next to no warning about the announcement made by the B.C.

A Prince George forestry worker is nearly $104,000 richer after guessing right on six of seven numbers plus the bonus number on the Lotto Max lottery. Neil Morris, a married 47-year-old father of three, was at the B.C.

Taseko Mines has passed a major hurdle for its proposed $800-million Prosperity gold and copper mine in Central B.C. The provincial government announced Thursday the project had passed an environmental review led by the B.C.

The announcement by College of New Caledonia to hire 50 aboriginal individuals over the next five years wasn't something that happened overnight or without a lot of negotiating, said the president of the Faculty Association.

Warm weather and a scheduling mix-up made for enhanced training for some northern paramedics in Prince George, Thursday. "This was very impromptu," said Richard Kennelly, B.C. Ambulance Service's superintendent of the northern B.C. region.

Police in the Lakes District are releasing more information on the fatal motor vehicle incident that claimed one life in Burns Lake last week. The MVI occurred on Jan. 5 just before 4 p.m.

Northern B.C.'s newest lumber player, Conifex, is bullish on the future, calculating that lumber supply constraints, a continually growing U.S. population, and the advent of a Chinese market will jack up prices in the medium-term future.

The provincial government lost an arbitration ruling on class size violations across the province. Arbitrator James Dorsey ordered the government to compensate B.C.

Prince George is among the Canadian towns and cities that have a chance to be included on a new Canadian edition of Monopoly. The top 20 cities, as determined in an online vote at www.monopolyvote.ca, will be included.