Burns Lake News

Dr. Alan Hill, former chief of staff at Lakes District Hospital and Medical Centre, acknowledges a gift from hospital staff at his retirement luncheon in April.

Starting in today's paper and running for the rest of the week, Citizen readers will be seeing plenty of stories about Burns Lake.

Old lunch box favourites such as the McIntosh that many of us grew up with will be a lot harder to find on store shelves over the next decade as the trend to plant sexier varieties of apples grows.

A 17-year-old youth has been charged in the homicide of a teenage girl in northeast B.C. last year.

Ryan Lieph will be loading up the van and heading east in a few days, along with his wife and bulldog Max, to begin a family practice residency in Charlottetown, P.E.I. When the 31-year-old's residency ends, Lieph plans to return to his reserve in Sooke or move to Burns Lake in northern B.C., where he spent time as a medical student and experienced ... (more)

The highest award handed out by economic development officials in B.C. has gone to a group of Burns Lake municipal money managers.

A 76 page report prepared by the Economic Development Association of B.C. incorporating ideas presented by the community during a March town hall meeting has been given to the Village of Burns Lake.

First Captain Chris Anderson, a master mariner joined with Colin Kinsley of the Northern Gateway Alliance [a coalition of people supporting the regulatory review of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project] to discuss several marine safety aspects of the Northern Gateway Pipeline project with Village of Burns Lake council last week.

Officials from WorkSafeBC recently inspected Western Forest Products' two sawmills in Nanaimo, as part of the inspection of all sawmills in B.C. after recent explosions that took four lives at two Interior facilities.

Victoria's suggestion to send loggers into old-growth stands and those set aside for viewscapes may soon be getting criticism from an unlikely source - logging companies.

Two catastrophic sawmill explosions that killed four people and injured dozens more originated in contained spaces in which electrical and or mechanical equipment was running, says WorkSafeBC.

After more than 30 years in the field and a continued interest long after retirement, the most important thing Dr.

An unprecedented crackdown on safety in sawmills across B.C. after two catastrophic explosions that killed four people has led to the closing of a portion of Canfor's mill in the northern town of Mackenzie.

Close to 250 Lakeland Mill employees are out of work following the April 23, 2012 explosion and fire that destroyed the Prince George sawmill.

Meet the 12 new street food locations and the vendors who landed them in Thursday's Vancouver Sun.

Historic Port Moody Flavelle mill to shut down because of high insurance premiums after two fatal B.C. sawmill fires.

Two fatal fires at B.C. sawmills this year have resulted in the unprecedented step of wood products manufacturing executives teaming up to improve worker safety by creating their own task force.

Prince George, BC.- Minster of Jobs Tourism and Innovation, Pat Bell says he feels "pretty confident" that both the Lakeland and Babine Forest Products sawmills will be rebuilt and will reopen.

With more than 100 films and 76 screenings and six world premieres, Vancouver's DOXA 2012 documentary festival runs May 4 to 13.

A wood dust explosion 16 months ago that blew apart a small control room and started a fire at a Williams Lake sawmill went unreported to WorkSafeBC, the chief workplace safety agency in the province.