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The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations has reduced the Revelstoke timber supply area’s allowable annual cut by two per cent.

B.C. recorded a slight net loss of people migrating to other provinces in the first quarter of 2011, according to preliminary data compiled by Statistics Canada.

Last month was the coolest July since 1999 and was the sixth straight cooler-than-average month in West Kootenay.

Canadian Pickers sounds like it might be a show with Tommy Hunter. But the co-stars of the History Television series, which comes to West Kootenay this month, aren’t interested in guitars unless they’re old and for sale.

The MAX Molybdenum Mine at Trout Lake resumed mill operations on July 27. The operation mines and mills molybdenum into a fine powder concentrate at their facility located on a mountainside above Trout Lake.

Penticton RCMP have spread their manhunt for David Wesley Bobbitt after a brutal attack on a woman found bound in his second hand store early Sunday morning.

The Southeast Fire Centre says it has had to respond to only about a quarter as many forest fires this year compared to the same time in 2010.

As you can imagine, the wet weather has meant fewer forest fires in the Southeast Fire District compared with drier years. Department staff release the following update on July 29. In the Arrow district, there have been a total of three fires, with only 0.027 hectares burned. Here is the full report from Southeast Fire Centre staff:

Trying to maintain market share in rapidly evolving gambling business, B.C. Lottery Corporation is looking at expanding its online games and tickets to mobile phones and tablets.

A 10 per cent harmonized sales tax will cost an average B.C. family $255 a year less than returning to the former provincial sales tax, according to a new study.