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While the price for clean power in B.C. keeps on rising, FortisBC has been able to lower prices for its customers, thanks to an abundant supply of natural gas.

Nexterra Systems has signed a US$6.9 million contract to deliver clean heat and power to a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical centre in Michigan.

In a boost to B.C.’s fledgling sturgeon aquaculture industry, the federal government is providing $717,700 to complete a new International Centre for Sturgeon Studies (ICSS) at Vancouver Island University.

The Vancouver Canadians ’ ability to sail 9-2 past the Tri-City Dust Devils Sunday to capture the Northwest League championship didn’t translate into profit windfall for the team’s owners.

Vancouver’s hiring climate is expected to slow slightly for the final quarter of the year, but remains substantially stronger than a year ago and ahead of the national average, according to a Manpower employment outlook survey released this morning,

B.C.’s Endako molybdenum mine has added another two years to its life.

Resource nationalism is now the top risk for the mining industry, according to Ernst & Young ’s annual report, Business Risks Facing Mining and Metals 2011-2012.

Former BC Hydro director Gwen Johansson would lose her house and much of her land if the Crown corporation is told to build a $7.9 billion hydroelectric dam on the Peace River.

A Vancouver pharmaceutical company has been granted Health Canada approval for a wound care product that contains bovine collagen.

The vice-president of a Vancouver-based alloys manufacturer has been tapped to chair the World Nuclear Fuel’s new fuel technology working group.