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Vancouver Island’s oldest craft brewery finds new home amid 35% rent hike

Vancouver Island Brewing forges ties with Phillips Brewing

Whisky curator Stacy Kyle with bottles on the lounge shelves at Skye Avenue Kitchen & Lounge in Surrey, at the Central City tower.

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B.C. bar boasts Canada’s largest whisky collection, 1,300 ‘expressions’

'There's so many bottles we had to reinforce the shelves in the lounge,' whisky curator says

A work camp at Seabridge Gold's KSM project.

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KSM Gold project achieves substantially-started status

In late July, the company announced the EAO had designated its flagship KSM project as 'substantially started'

Jason and Amber Akeson at their Williams Lake Red Tomato Pies location. (Kim Kimberlin photo - Williams Lake Tribune)

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B.C. pizza chain opening doors in Kelowna

Red Tomato Pies is opening at 401 Glenmore Road

Moon River Mining proposes a molybdenum mine on Hudson Bay Mountain.

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Is Smithers ready for the return of Miss Moly?

For 80 years, there has been a great deal of waxing and waning interest in the molybdenum that…

MLA Roly Russel, Minister of State for Trade Jagrup Brar, and Okanagan Falls Director Matt Taylor were given a tour of the Mercer Mass Timber facility in Okanagan Falls on July 17. Pictured is Brar speaking with Mercer employees Travis Hiller, Brian Merwin and Greg Johnston.

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Province investing $7 million in Okanagan mass timber manufacturing

The funding will help provide 28 additional jobs at the Okanagan Falls facility

Members of the Outside Battery Limits Closure Weld Team following completion of the final weld on the first production train at the LNG Canada project, in Kitimat.

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Fluor completes final weld on first LNG Canada production train

Milestone marks a significant phase as project transitions to lengthy start-up procedure

Pacific Inland Resources Gate 1. (Thom Barker/Black Press Media)

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Smithers mill hums along as logging industry falters

The doom and gloom surrounding B.C.'s forestry industry underscores just how fortunate Smithers is to have Pacific Inland…

An Alaskan vote on cruise ship restrictions could spur new schedules that would benefit Victoria's economy. This file photo shows pedicabs transporting cruise ship tourists into town in July 2023. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)

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Vote on partial Alaskan cruise ship ban could boost B.C. economy

U.S. debate could lead to new itineraries that would allow longer cruise stays in B.C.'s capital

A carved totem fades into the vegetation at Yuquot on the western edge of B.C.’s Nootka Sound. (John McKinley file)

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Indigenous tourism struggles despite rebounding international demand

Post-pandemic recovery slow, operators say support from government lacking