News

B.C. Liberal leadership candidates made their pitches to coastal loggers at their annual convention this week, vowing to continue the B.C. government’s efforts to develop Asian export markets and homegrown demand for wood.

Local charities and non-profit organizations are on tenterhooks as they wait to see how changes announced in last year’s budget by the B.C. Solicitor General’s ministry could affect them.

Two B.C. Liberal leadership candidates have called for changes to province-wide testing for elementary school children.

A two-vehicle collision on Highway 97 south of the Sugarcane reserve Saturday morning sent five people to hospital.

Jan. 27 is Family Literacy Day.

Starting today and running through until Family Literacy Day on Jan. 27 the public is invited to the Williams Lake Library during opening hours to play board games.

Do you know someone who has played a significant role in tobacco reduction?

The public is being credited with helping to take down a large indoor grow operation on Wednesday in the 141 Mile House area near Williams Lake.

Registration is now being taken for the Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event planned in the lakecity for May 28.

The Cariboo Chilcotin Regional Hospital District elected its chair and vice chair for 2011.