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The Northern Health Authority statement of financial information for the year ended March 31, 2010 revealed that 921 Northern Health employees earned in excess of $75,000 during the 2009/2010 fiscal year.

Yet another two staff positions within the Village of Burns Lake have become vacant over the past week, for a total of village staff position vacant in just one month.

Since 2004 Lake Babine Nation has been working under a remedial management plan which was required by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) policy when the band reported financial troubles to the tune of a negative 15 per cent deficit.

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School District 91 board members have plans to strengthen the relationship between B.C. and China and are well on their way to signing an agreement which would benefit both the local area and the Chinese.

Slippery roads and blizzard conditions as well as speed may have caused the driver of a 2006 GMC pick up tuck to rear end a chip truck near Burns Lake last week.

An offer to council from the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) to cohost a meeting regarding the proposed Enbridge pipeline was accepted by councillors last week.