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Martial Arts
Judo provincial championship set to take place next week
PRINCE GEORGE- Prince George will be host to another major sporting event as athletes from across B.C. will participate in the 2024 Provincial Championships. The event will take place from April 5-7, 2024 at the Northern Sports Centre.The competition will take a lot of heavy lifting from the over 120 volunteers as they...
5h ago
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Alcohol tax
Local breweries and wineries celebrating tax increase cap
PRINCE GEORGE - Local breweries and wineries will be enjoying lower than expected tax increases, as the federal government announced a two year extension on the annual alcohol excise duty inflation adjustment. This means for the next two years, the tax increase will be limited to just two percent. Excise tax is a legis...
6h ago
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PLAYOFF PREVIEW
Cougars excited for Round 1 of WHL Playoffs
PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George Cougars are back in the post-season again. The team clinched the #1 seed in the Western Conference which means home-ice advantage throughout the WHL playoffs. With players so excited to play some hockey in front of sold-out CN CentreTheir opponent is the Spokane Chiefs. A team Prince G...
6h ago
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Trudeau plans to amend the Canadian Mortgage Charter
PRINCE GEORGE - The federal government is looking at measures aimed to amend the Canadian Mortgage Charter to allow tenants to count on-time rent payments toward their credit score, and propose $15 million in new funding to provincial legal aid organizations to better protect tenants against unfair rent payments, renov...
7h ago
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Northern BC

Health
Northern Health expands revaccination program after discovering more improperly stored vaccines
NORTHERN B.C.- Northern Health is recommending that around 1,575 should get reimmunized in Terrace, Stewart and surrounding First Nations communities between October 2022 and September 2023. This after the B.C. Centre for Disease Control discovered that multiple vaccine lots were stored at temperatures above the accept...
10h ago
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Travel
ICBC urges motorists to take extra care while travelling this Easter long weekend
PRINCE GEORGE - Don't become a statistic this long weekend and drive safely on British Columbia highways.ICBC says every Easter long weekend in B.C. an average of one person is killed and 578 people are injured on B.C. roads. They say tips to stay safe include planning your route ahead of time tp check road and weather...
17h ago
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Missing child
Smithers RCMP seek missing child
SMITHERS - Update: RCMP say she's been located and is safe and sound.Earlier: Mounties in Smithers are seeking the public's help in locating a missing child.Police say 11-year-old Mariah Evans was last seen on Monday, March 25, 2024 at 10:00 pm.Smithers RCMP were notified that Mariah was missing from the family home in...
Mar 26, 2024
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Fatal MVI
One person killed in motorcycle crash on Highway 16
VALEMOUNT - One person is dead and another is critically injured following a motorcycle crash on Highway 16 at Tete Jaune Cache yesterday (sun) afternoon. North District RCMP say it happened just after 4 p.m. near the scales. No word on what caused the collision but it appears to be a single-vehicle accident. The crash...
Mar 25, 2024
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Cariboo Region

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To deny residential school truths is a 'slap in the face': BCAFN Regional Chief Teegee
QUESNEL - It was just under a week ago that Quesnel City Council found out that the wife of Quesnel's mayor was distributing the book Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (And the Truth About Residential Schools), a book which downplays the history of residential schools in Canada."Residential school denialism nee...
Mar 25, 2024
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'This is hate': Reaction in Quesnel to controversial book distribution by Mayor's wife
QUESNEL - There is controversy in the city of the Quesnel this week as it was discovered that the Mayor of Quesnel's wife was distributing a book that essentially questions the existence of residential schools and is now causing pain for residential school survivors, and anger among other civic leaders.Mayor Ron Paull'...
Mar 22, 2024
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Drug bust
Mounties seize drugs, cash and ammunition in Highway 97 bust
WILLIAMS LAKE - BC Highway Patrol has announced a sizeable drug bust just south of Williams Lake.Cpl. Melissa Jongema says the bust occurred after a BC Highway Patrol officer stopped a vehicle for speeding on Highway 97 in 141 Mile House. The driver was going 110 km/hr in a 100 km/hr zone."The officer conducted a ...
Mar 21, 2024
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Civic politics
Wife of Quesnel mayor condemned by council for circulating controversial book on residential schools
QUESNEL - An emotional city council meeting in Quesnel Wednesday night. This after it was discovered that Mayor Ron Paull's wife Pat Morton has been circulating a book that implies cultural genocide did not occur at residential schools. Mayor Ron Paull says he's never even opened the book but has not condemned his wife...
Mar 21, 2024
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Canada

Trudeau won't say if he has spoken to Housefather since Gaza motion
OTTAWA - Quebec MP Anthony Housefather remains undecided on his future more than a week after a House of Commons motion on Israel and Gaza left him questioning whether he will remain in the Liberal party. And Prime Minister Minister Justin Trudeau isn't saying if he has even been talking to Housefather to try and keep ...
8h ago
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Four Saskatchewan family members died in murder-suicide, RCMP say
NEUDORF, SASK. - RCMP say four members of the same family found dead earlier this week in a rural Saskatchewan home were the victims of a murder-suicide. Mounties say a 67-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman, along with their 30-year-old son, were killed on the property near Neudorf, about 130 kilometres east of Regin...
8h ago
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B.C. First Nation, Catholic Church announce 'sacred covenant' to be signed on Easter
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Vancouver's Catholic Archbishop says a 'Sacred Covenant' agreement has been reached with the First Nation in Kamloops, B.C., that announced the discovery the remains of more than 200 children at the site of a former residential school. Archbishop J. Michael Miller of the Catholic archdiocese of Vancou...
8h ago
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Quebec minister to order probe after complaint about QMJHL English-only playoff garb
MONTREAL - The Quebec government says it will ask the province's language watchdog to investigate after the leader of the Parti Québécois complained about a lack of French on a QMJHL team's playoff garb. On Wednesday night, PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon complained on X, formerly Twitter, about T-shir...
9h ago
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Federal Court orders revisions to deal between Ottawa and Métis Nation of Alberta
EDMONTON - The Federal Court is ordering Ottawa to make changes to a self-government deal it struck with the Métis Nation of Alberta. The court says the deal too broadly defines who it applies to and was made without consulting two other Métis groups in the province. The decision strikes down offending ...
11h ago
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Quebec firefighters who died in 2023 flood lacked training, equipment: safety board
MONTREAL - Quebec's workplace safety board says a lack of training and equipment contributed to the deaths of two firefighters during a flood northeast of Quebec City last May. The volunteer firefighters were using an amphibious vehicle equipped with tracks and an outboard motor in an attempt to reach residents of a ho...
12h ago
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