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If you haven’t already received your HST Referendum Voting package, midnight on Friday is the deadline to request one.

Elections BC is keeping its call centre open until midnight Friday, the deadline for B.C. residents to register and request a voting package for the harmonized sales tax referendum.

The Kootenay Savings Waneta Plaza branch will be downsizing its office this October, according to president and CEO Brent Tremblay.

Greater Trail residents will soon be listening to a new anchor deliver their news south of the border, from an entirely different city.

Trail and Warfield residents will have the opportunity to ask questions and voice any concerns they have about the two communities joining at an open house on Thursday.

Government communications have traditionally been built around a stream of propaganda, with the emphasis on pictures and text arranged to show the ruling politicians of the day in a flattering light.

The B.C. government finished the fiscal year this spring with a deficit of $309 million, nearly $1 billion less than what was forecast last fall.

Program expects to help around 100 students.

Six thefts from vehicles in Laburnum area.

Chinese buyers purchased $122 million worth of B.C. lumber in May, surpassing the value of lumber shipments to the United States for the first time ever.