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Last week the Village of Burns Lake renewed their agreement with Lake Babine Nation (LBN) to extend village services such as water, garbage pickup, snowplowing and fire protection to the LBN community of Woyenne for the next five years. L-R Derek Macdonald, Melvon Jospeh, Chief Wilf Adam and Robert Szelecz. There were no village council on hand available at the time of the photo. (Flavio Nienow photo)

A vehicle recovery is taking place 20 km east of Houston

About 300 people travel between Burns Lake and Prince George each month

Approximately 10 community members joined John Rustad, MLA for Nechako Lakes, for lunch at the Heritage Centre last week. During the event, Rustad discussed issues affecting the forest products industry - annual allowable cut reductions, softwood lumber agreement, duties imposed by the U.S. and the spruce beetle -, as well as proportional representation and ICBC. (Flavio Nienow photos)

Burns Lake residents had a chance to lend their voice to the College of New Caledonia’s (CNC) 2018-19 budget talks during a consultation session last week. Each of CNC’s six campuses were set up to host one unified public budget session through digital delivery instruction technology (DDI). “DDI has proven to be a highly innovated and successful method of instruction,” said CNC president Henry Reiser.

Concerns have “remained or worsened,” says advocacy group

Cullen: Trudeau must intervene in “troubled” inquiry

Lake Babine Nation Chief Wilf Adam was in Montreal last week participating in NAFTA negotiations as part of the Assembly of First Nations’ (AFN) economic development committee, which he has recently been appointed to. He said the meetings went well and that the AFN plans to send a committee to future NAFTA talks in Mexico and the U.S. (Submitted photos)

He was re-arrested days after being released from custody last month

A local resident has recently raised concerns on social media