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Pressure grows for disability support

Pressure grows for disability support

A B.C. Liberal MLA has joined opposition calls for an overhaul of services to developmentally disabled people.
Annual flu shot season begins

Annual flu shot season begins

Doctors' offices, clinics and pharmacies have begun the annual influenza vaccination program, which is free for seniors and children between six and 23 months old.

Site C to go to JRP

A draft agreement has been developed by the federal and provincial governments for a harmonized environmental review of the Site C dam project on the Peace River.

Human error inevitable - so is a spill

Raised in Kitimat and now living in Smithers, Greg Brown is an environmental consultant who has worked on energy issues for the past decade.

Nechako Nations file suit against Rio Tinto Alcan

Rio Tinto Alcan is again the target of a law suit relating to its Kenney Dam/reservoir operations.

Council gives ski hill $15,000

Kitimat council has agreed to give the My Mountain Co-op (MMC) $15,000 provided it is used only for operation of the Shames Mountain ski hill, not to purchase it.
BC Hydro cuts 300 jobs, 150 to come

BC Hydro cuts 300 jobs, 150 to come

BC Hydro is moving ahead with its cost-cutting program, eliminating 300 positions this week and announcing 150 more will be gone in the next two years.
Ghetto made sex trade workers easier prey: inquiry

Ghetto made sex trade workers easier prey: inquiry

Street prostitution subject to two-tiered law enforcement, expert testifies
Treaty commission calls for political will

Treaty commission calls for political will

The head of the B.C. Treaty Commission wants her mandate extended one more year to see if the federal-provincial effort to settle aboriginal land claims has a future after two decades.

Man charged in Kitimat murder UPDATE

A 19-year-old male is due to appear in Terrace court this afternoon after being charged with second degree murder, aggravated assault and break and enter with intent.