Business

Community radio station aiming for November launch at 92.5 FM

Ray Cooper's Butcher opened last week with much anticipation. On opening day, two display coolers in the front room were packed full of various assortments of beef, chicken and pork that would satisfy any meat lover.

The B.C. Film Commission and its regional agencies are building up their library of film locations in an effort to maintain B.C.'s $1 billion film and television industry.

The B.C. government has started engineering work to widen sections of the main route from Alberta into northeast B.C., the first step to a four-lane industrial route from the provincial border to Fort St. John.

Black Press, British Columbia's largest publisher of community newspapers and websites, has announced the purchase of the Cranbrook Daily Townsman and the Kimberley Daily Bulletin from Don Kendall.

Naturopathic Doctor Theresa Camozzi has opened Revelstoke’s first naturopathic clinic called Return to Grace.

B.C. cities and towns still charge businesses almost three times the residential rate on average, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

Finance Minister Kevin Falcon says there are still many people making up their minds about the harmonized sales tax.

The B.C. government is extending its interim forest and range agreements with aboriginal people to include a new 25-year woodland licence for Crown forests.