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B.C.'s plan to fund nicotine patches and gum for smokers has been lauded by the Canadian Cancer Society and other health organizations, but the program has its detractors.

Sointula resident So Huy Tran has not been seen in more than two months and cops are looking for clues to his disappearance.

PORT McNEILL - North Island businesses team up to provide funds and in-kind support to salmon restoration program.

The fate of B.C.'s harmonized sales tax should be known by the end of August.

PORT McNEILL - About 60 protesters, mainly from Kwakiutl First Nation, angered over logging they say is happening on their lands, marched about four-km from the Hwy. 19 Port McNeill junction to Western Forest Products' log sorting yard in Port McNeill Wednesday. It was the first day of a two day protest that culminated at the Port mcNeill ferry terminal. Pick up the next issue of the North Island Gazette for the full story.

The pilot of a doomed helicopter that crashed in the interior killing all aboard had deep ties to the North Island.

B.C. recorded a slight net loss of people migrating to other provinces in the first quarter of 2011, according to preliminary data compiled by Statistics Canada.

Trying to maintain market share in rapidly evolving gambling business, B.C. Lottery Corporation is looking at expanding its online games and tickets to mobile phones and tablets.

PORT HARDY—Don Orr said he had no idea his plans to build a few cabins would create such an uproar within the North Island hospitality industry.

COURTENAY—Friends and family are preparing to say their last goodbyes to a former Port Hardy man who was allegedly killed by a teen in a weekend knife attack.