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Community Futures offers funding for marketing and training to businesses impacted by wild fires

VICTORIA - Commercial truck drivers using new generation wide-base single tires are now allowed a single-axle weight of 8,500 kilograms, which will assist in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing fuel efficiency.

On June 21, Gilbert Smith Forest Products Ltd. (GSFP) celebrated a successful 50 years in the cedar lumber business in Barriere with employees, retirees, and community members at the annual safety barbecue at the mill. The event also celebrated the continued focus on safety within the mill and woodlands.

Tom Harris Legacy Fund sends over 200 underpriviledged local kids to camp this summer.

The investigation started last summer after a complaint the company was putting food out for bears

The Lower North Thompson Community Forest Society (LNTCFS) was presented with the Robin Hood Memorial Award for Excellence in Community Forestry by Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development during the 2018 BC Community Forest Association (BCCFA) Conference, held May 24-26, in Burns Lake, and hosted by the Burns Lake, Chinook and Cheslatta Community Forests.

However, we need to ensure that we preserve what we have.

WorkSafeBC reports that in 2017, 158 B.C. workers died from a workplace injury or disease. Of the 158 accepted work-related deaths, 87 were the result of occupational disease. The gender breakdown for these work-related deaths is 152 males and six females. Six of these deaths took place in the Thompson Nicola Regional District. Families and communities are left to mourn.

Construction on Valemount Glacier resort has been pushed back until the summer of 2019

Co-anchors exit news outlet amid ‘major refresh’ at station