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.

Local area clinics announced for this week

The 100 Mile House Agriplex might still come back to life.

A better and faster job of snow clearing for less money is what Interior Roads is looking forward to this year.

One of the new home buzzwords is “visitability,” which means designing houses with a no-step entrance, wider doors and a bathroom on the main floor.

. There was a great turnout for the parade that kicked off the Remembrance Day services at 100 Mile House Community Hall on Nov. 11. Area residents lined Birch Avenue to watch the parade and show their appreciation of the marchers.

Publisher Chris Nickless is pleased to welcome Ken Alexander as the new 100 Mile House Free Press editor.

100 Mile House Fire-Rescue was

Patience is a virtue, and sometimes, it pays great dividends.

On Nov. 1, a Kamloops man walked into the Ashcroft RCMP Detachment with a dog that had jumped into the back of his pickup truck in Lac la Hache and wouldn’t get out.

The District of 100 Mile House is one of the few British Columbia communities without a museum, but that’s changing thanks to the gift of a number of buildings, including The Lodge.

Cariboo Regional District Area L Director Bruce Rattray noted he had heard concerns

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.