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Twenty eight new beds at Deni House will open on Nov. 28, Karen Brunoro, residential nurse manager for Interior Health, told the Cariboo Regional District board at meeting last week.

School District 27 trustee Pete Penner was tight lipped about discussions around the B.C. Public School Employers Association table last week regarding B.C. teachers job action.

The Crown corporation that oversees the care of developmentally disabled adults in British Columbia is under the microscope.

Now that the pages have turned to the second month of school, numbers in Cariboo Chilcotin School District No. 27 indicate around 3,100 students are riding the district’s school buses.

Kim Dressler helps out in Karla Meger’s Kindergarten/Grade 1 class at Kwaleen Traditional School Thursday. Declan Pocock (left) and Caen Passeri assist Dressler. Students were making Stone soup and cheese biscuits for Thanksgiving. There was also a bake sale.

VPD, RCMP had many chances to stop serial killer preying on Downtown Eastside women

Williams Lake Secondary School students attend a Beyond the Blues session addressing the issue of depression and anxiety, Thursday. Colleen Crossley of the Cariboo Chilcotin Mental Health Association spoke.

From left to right at the Williams Lake Job Fair are Miriam Schilling, with the Xat’sull Heritage Village, who was presenting information; and Virginia Gilbert of the Williams Lake Indian Band, whose mother was originally from the Soda Creek Band before she married into the WLIB.

Pat Bell's latest assignment is simple. As Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation, all he has to do is take B.C.'s success in reaching out to Asia for forest products, extend it to the rest of the economy, and make Premier Christy Clark's jobs plan work.

The B.C. government has presented legislation to restrict mining and oil and gas development in the Flathead watershed in southeastern B.C., formalizing an agreement reached with Montana in 2010.