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The defeat of the harmonized sales tax has nearly tripled B.C.'s deficit forecast for the current fiscal year, doubled it for next year, and left a $458 million gap for 2013 when the B.C. Liberal government has committed to balance the budget and call an election.

The renovation of Deni House is on time and on budget.

Morton testifies before Cohen Inquiry into decline of Fraser River sockeye

The recent musings of the province’s Minister of Environment Terry Lake about the future of the Pacific Carbon Trust has the attention of some stakeholders. Publicly Lake has said that B.C.’s carbon neutrality program works but needs changes.

Premier Christy Clark ended months of speculation Thursday, announcing she will wait until the scheduled date of May 2013 to face the voters in a general election.

A permit by the Ministry of Energy and Mines to allow an expansion of the Mount Polley Mine has the Williams Lake Indian Band considering its options.

Feds show little flexibility on policing contract: Fassbender

Former Fraser Health technology manager James Roy Taylor was charged in 2010 along with an Abbotsford doctor and a former senior official in the B.C. health ministry, after police found evidence of improper payments and benefits in health ministry purchasing.

Williams Lake’s Royal Canadian Legion branch 139 hopes the old proverb the squeaky wheel gets the grease — or in this case the greater property tax exemption — rings true.

Students graduating this year can breathe a collective sigh of relief.