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4.6 event in August triggered by fracking, OGC finds

A fort where explorers Alexander MacKenzie and David Thompson took refuge is shaping up to be another flashpoint in the fight over the Site C dam.

Industrial tax a done deal Communities in the Peace stood to be millions richer with the signing of a new industrial tax deal with the province, the Alaska Highway News reported on this day in history.

There's been little doubt this holiday season that Peace Country folk are a charitable bunch. From filling a 60-ton rock truck with groceries and stocking the shelves at Fort St.

Darlene Hunter and Marvin Yahey were re-elected as chiefs of the Halfway River and Blueberry River First Nations, respectively, on Friday.

Northern Health's Connections program, which provides transportation for patients who need to travel for medical care, is transitioning to a modified schedule for the holiday season. The buses will begin their last routes for 2015 beginning Dec. 17.

An oil and gas company failed to maintain an abandoned well that leaked sour gas near homes in Charlie Lake and Fort St. John last December, according to a new B.C. Oil and Gas Commission report.

Landowners in the Groundbirch area are concerned that a compressor station related to the North Montney mainline project could affect the current and future use of their lands.

The totals are in: 2015 was the worst year for oil and gas land sales in a generation. The province auctioned off $4.2 million in drilling rights at its Dec. 9 land sale, bringing the 2015 total to $18 million.

Social licence "radicals" are delaying worthy natural resource projects and hurting Canada's social and economic fabric, Brian Lee Crowley told chambers of commerce in Dawson Creek and Fort St. John this week.