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B.C.’s chief forester, Jim Snetsinger, said on Thursday that he is reducing the annual timber cut allowed in a part of the Great Bear Rainforest by 23% to 767,000 cubic metres.

According to the company’s year-end results announced Thursday afternoon, the forestry giant had earnings of $166 million, or $3.84 per share, in 2010. This compared with a $341 million loss on earnings at the end of 2009.

Small and medium-sized businesses need to do a better job of structuring cross-border sales.

Vancouver’s industrial real estate supply remains tight, putting upward pressure on prices, according to Avison Young’s winter and spring industrial report.

A glut of shale gas finds across the continent have reduced natural gas prices recently, but that hasn’t stopped Victoria from investing in one of the province’s largest industries.

Although residents across the province believe the HST will cost them sorely, at least one researcher claims it’s not a "tax grab.

A co-founder of B.C. biotech sector success story ID Biomedical Corp. (IDB) is suing another biotech firm for the return of a US$250,000 loan he provided to it as its CEO.

The Canadian Commissioner of Lobbying said Wednesday that a lobbyist who worked for two Vancouver-based mining companies is among three lobbyists to recently breach the profession’s code of conduct.

During a speech Wednesday at a Vancouver Board of Trade event, the vice-chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada (AIAC) boasted of the sector benefits stemming from the federal government’s polarizing decision to acquire 65 U.S.

BTY Group, a Vancouver-based cost and project management consultancy, believes 2011 will be a good year for the construction business.