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.

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.

The Lakes District Native Economic Development Corporation (LDNEDC) consisting of the Burns Lake Band, Nee Tahi Buhn Band, Skin Tyee Band and the Cheslatta Carrier Nation together with Calgary based company Pristine Power have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will pave the way for the development of a 30 megawatt bio-energy project named ‘Dinti Yoh’ near Burns Lake.

The Village of Burns Lake (VBL) recently retained Bulkley Valley Engineering Services Ltd. (BVESL) to provide them with a structural assessment of the Burns Lake Curling arena.

Nov. 1 a Kamloops man attended the Ashcroft Detachment with a dog that had jumped into the back of his pickup in Lac La Hache and wouldn’t get out.

Healthy children aged three to nine only have to roll up their sleeves once.

Reports streamed in to the Lakes District News after a bright flash in the sky was seen by many local residents.

The future of the Tom Forsyth Memorial arena hangs in the balance after a recent failed community referendum to extend the tax base to support its funding.

Local government treaty advisory committees have taken a cut along with many other non-core services in the provincial government, says Aboriginal Relations Minister George Abbott.

Training for eligible self-employed contractors and owner-operators that work in the forest industry is now available through Central Interior Logging Association (CILA) and the Labour Market Partnership program.

Police flagged down

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.