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News Headlines from Williams Lake, BC

• Controversial Mine Could Get Green Light Despite Opposition

  Fish Lake in B.C.'s Nemiah Valley. The Taseko Mines Prosperity project would drain Fish Lake and use Little Fish Lake and Fish Creek as tailings ponds.

• Regional district board highlights

  The Cariboo Regional District gave first and second reading to a proposed regulatory Building Inspection Bylaw.

• Chiefs warn of confrontation over mine

  The Tsilhqot'in National Government, B.C. Union of Indian Chiefs, the First Nations Summit, a group of 12 environmental organizations, and others are asking the federal government to turn down the Prosperity mine proposal, and some are warning of a confrontation.

• Top Liberals question Campbella s leadership

  British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell, right, applauds as Finance Minister Colin Hansen pauses while tabling the provincial budget at the B.C. Legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Tuesday March 2, 2010.

• Top Liberals question Campbell's leadership

  British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell, right, applauds as Finance Minister Colin Hansen pauses while tabling the provincial budget at the B.C. Legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Tuesday March 2, 2010.

• Party insider wants Campbell gone

  Scott Nelson is a loyal Liberal who believes the party has done great things for British Columbia -- but the HST has stretched that loyalty to the snapping point.

• Lesley Lloyd known for horsehair pottery

  Lesley Lloyd has developed a reputation well beyond the Cariboo for her large earthy-coloured pots decorated with the curling black wisps of horse hair.

• Every picture has a story

  Geoff Moore is not only an inspired photographer of nature and human experience he very much enjoys sharing the stories behind his photographs.

• First Nations threaten violence over B.C. mine

  A group of B.C. First Nations leaders are threatening violence if the federal government doesn't kill a mining project that could destroy a pristine lake.

• Mackenzie Ave. paving expected to be complete by mid-September

  The City of Williams Lake is trying to make some concrete sections of Mackenzie Avenue a little smoother.