A 24-year-old man is in serious, but stable, condition after being shot by an RCMP officer Saturday near Smithers.

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.

Passions flared and the community’s message to the Northern Health Authority was strong – Kitimat wants to keep all of its current hospital services.

Eight-year-old Lucas Martins couldn’t decide which was a bigger thrill.

Kitimat crime is down, according to statistics presented to council last week by local Staff Sergeant Steven Corp.

A man taken into police custody last week following a fatal stabbing in Kitimat Sunday, Nov. 8 is currently being held in a Prince George prison on unrelated charges.

West Fraser Timber has agreed to open its Eurocan pulp and paper mill books to an unnamed Chinese company in the expectation that the Kitimat plant could be sold, says forests minister Pat Bell.

The week of November 15 to 21 was proclaimed National Addiction Awareness Week in Kitimat by Mayor Joanne Monaghan. She signed a proclamation on Nov. 12 in the presence of group chairman Marg Boegart.

Northern Health has expanded the groups eligible to receive the H1N1 vaccine.

If Kitimat city council has their way, the backyard fire pit bylaw, once approved, will be just right.

RED SQUARE on map shows approximately location of this morning's earthquake, the southern end of the Queen Charlotte Islands. WINDOW BLINDS were rocking back and forth and pictures on walls were swaying after an earthquake took place just after 7:30 a.m. this morning.

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.