National Business

VANCOUVER — Mill cutbacks in British Columbia are still happening, but West Fraser Timber Co Ltd. said Friday that the worst of the pullback is behind it. The company, like many in B.C.

MONTREAL — An era is about to end at the Laurentian Bank with customers no longer having access to teller services as of Monday in almost all of its branches. Six rural locations will continue to offer these services until September.

OTTAWA — Canadian retail sales fell for the first time in four months as shoppers spent less at grocery and liquor stores in May. Statistics Canada said Friday retail sales fell 0.1 per cent in May to $51.5 billion.

Mandalena Lewis was enjoying a layover in Hawaii with her WestJet co-workers the night she says a pilot pinned her down and tried to force her to have sex. "I escaped being raped, but I was sexually assaulted," the former flight attendant said.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government ended its fiscal year with an operating surplus of $1.5 billion as the province collected more revenue from taxation and less money from a softening real estate market.

NEW YORK — A judge who denied bail for jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein on sex trafficking charges Thursday said he poses a danger to the public and seems to still have an uncontrollable urge for sexual conduct with or in the presence of underage gir

NEW YORK — Two of the country's largest newspaper companies are in "advanced talks" to combine. That's according to a Wall Street Journal report that cites unidentified people familiar with the matter. The Journal says that Gannett Co.

DALLAS — Boeing says it will take a $4.9 billion charge to cover possible compensation to airlines whose Max jets remain grounded after two deadly accidents.

TORONTO — RNC Minerals says its president and chief executive has resigned effective immediately for personal reasons. Mark Selby was appointed CEO in 2014, about four years after joining Royal Nickel Corp.

CALGARY — An Alberta coalition that says oil and gas producers are lowballing how much it will cost to clean up their wellsites is being accused by the head of the Alberta Orphan Well Association of overstating those numbers.