VICTORIA – All B.C. residents are now eligible for the H1N1 influenza vaccine, and the provincial health officer is hoping that available supplies available around the province are used up as soon as possible.

Finance Minister Colin Hansen has extended an extra break for new homes from next year's harmonized sales tax. VICTORIA – The B.C. government is giving a bigger break to new home buyers in the latest move to ease the impact of next year's harmonized sales tax.

A plan to triple the size of the emergency room at the Kootenay Lake Hospital became a little more real with the hospital announcing it awarded the contract for the project.

Applicants hoping to earn a job as an auxiliary fire fighter went through training on Nov.13, 14 and 15 where they received their first experience extinguishing live fires and performing mock rescues.

The province should restore funding to the arts in the next budget year, according to a new report from the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services.

Nelson needs to improve its ability to attract foreign workers, according to the Nelson and District Chamber of Commerce.

The Olympics of then might not be the Olympics of now, but Bob Boucher is still an ardent believer in the ideal of the games and what it takes to get there.

Nelson is looking for help to determine the feasibility of using Kootenay Lake as a renewable energy source to heat and cool some of the buildings along the lake.

Construction of headpond for Fitzsimmons Creek hydro project on Blackcomb Mountain, 2008. That project will soon be in service and BC Hydro is planning a large expansion of run-of-river and wind power around the province.

Ambulances were moved from the B.C. Interior and Vancouver Island on the weekend to cover for dozens of Lower Mainland paramedics who called in sick on short notice starting Friday night.

IHA expands criteria

IHA expands criteria