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Prince George

Cross Country Skiing
Caledonia Nordic Ski Club to host 2025 Teck BC Cup #2 in February
PRINCE GEORGE - The Caledonia Nordic Ski Club will be hosting the 2025 Teck BC Cup #2 the weekend of Feb. 14 to 16, 2025.This cross-country event will bring skiers of all ages and skill levels from across the province to compete in classic and free technique rances in Prince George."We are thrilled to host the Tec...
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UNBC Basketball Recap
TWolves drop pair of games against TRU WolfPack
KAMLOOPS - Viktoriia Filatova set another career-high for the UNBC Timberwolves but it was the TRU WolfPack who came away with the 73-61 win Saturday (Jan. 26) night in Kamloops.The WolfPack snapped a lengthy losing streak with their first win since Nov. 11, 2023 in their final home game of the 2024/25 Canada West seas...
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Cougars give up four unanswered goals in 5-2 defeat to Blazers
PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George Cougars gave up four unanswered goals in the second period as the Kamloops Blazers came away with a 5-2 win at the CN Centre Saturday (Jan. 25) night. Led by former Cougar Oren Shtrom's three point night, the Blazers chased Joshua Ravensbergen from the crease after he allowed three goa...
Jan 26, 2025
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Accused flees treatment centre, misses trial
PRINCE GEORGE - A Prince George provincial court judge issued a warrant on Friday, Jan. 24 for the arrest of a man who took the name of a treatment facility literally.Sean Patrick Edward Smith, 39, was scheduled for trial before Judge Judith Doulis. He is charged with mischief under $5,000 and assault of a peace office...
Jan 26, 2025
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Northern BC

Crime
One dead, another injured in Dawson Creek shooting
DAWSON CREEK-On Sunday, January 19, shortly after 11:00 p.m., Dawson Creek RCMP received reports of gunfire on 102nd Avenue.Upon arrival, police located an adult male who was deceased. While investigating the scene they received a second report of shots fired at a nearby hotel. When the RCMP arrived at the hotel, they ...
Jan 23, 2025
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Trump reactions
Northern B.C. politicians react to Trump's inauguration
PRINCE GEORGE - President Donald Trump was sworn in as the USA's 47th president during Monday's inauguration, prompting a wide variety of responses from politicians all across Canada. Here in Northern B.C., Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Taylor Bachrach is concerned about the impacts Trump could have on our country."...
Jan 22, 2025
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More Nechako Watershed research coming
PRINCE GEORGE - The Nechako Watershed is an important piece of the Northern BC landscape. And it's a big one. More than 47,000 kilometres in size. Larger than the size of Belgium. And that's why, in 2019, Rio Tinto joined forces with the University of Northern BC to study that watershed at length. And, during the Natur...
Jan 17, 2025
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Impaired stats
BC Highway Patrol takes 267 impaired drivers off the road in December
PRINCE GEORGE - Impaired drivers kept BC Highway Patrol busy over the holiday season.So busy that they took an average of 8.61 impaired drivers off the road every day in December. That's an impaired driver caught every three hours for 31 days."The Winter Impaired Driving Campaign clearly shows that education is no...
Jan 16, 2025
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Cariboo Region

Policing
Quesnel RCMP take 54 impaired drivers off the road over 9 months following creation of new traffic unit
QUESNEL - The creation of a new municipal traffic unit in April 2024 in Quesnel helped take 54 impaired drivers off the road in 2024.That's one of the highlights of 2024 according to the Quesnel RCMP who note that calls for service were also up last year.Sgt. Clay Kronebusch says Quesnel RCMP responded to over 11,000 c...
Jan 20, 2025
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Workplace incident in Quesnel claims life of 24-year-old man
QUESNEL - A workplace incident claimed the life of a 24-year-old male worker in Quesnel Friday morning (Jan.17).Quesnel RCMP, Emergency Health Services and the Quesnel Fire Department responded to the incident at approximately 10:18 a.m. at the WestPine MDF Plant on Carradice Road. Few details have been released but po...
Jan 17, 2025
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Politics
Sheldon Clare to host transportation town hall in Quesnel
QUESNEL - Prince George-North Cariboo Conservative MLA and Deputy Whip Sheldon Clare will host a transportation town hall at the Quesnel Senior's Centre (461 Carson Ave) Friday night (Jan.17) from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.He will be joined by Harman Bhangu, the Conservative MLA for Langley-Abbotsford and also the party's Transp...
Jan 17, 2025
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Crime
Quesnel RCMP investigate weekend home invasion
QUESNEL - Quesnel RCMP are investigating a home invasion that occurred early Sunday morning (Jan.12).Police say it occurred just after 2 .a.m on the 300-block of Hoy Street. Two suspects broke into a home, sprayed the victim with bear spray and damaged several items. RCMP say the suspects were identified as an armed 26...
Jan 13, 2025
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Canada

CP NewsAlert: Chrystia Freeland calls for release of $200B tariff retaliation plan
OTTAWA - Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland says Canada needs to release a $200 billion plan to retaliate against U.S. President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs. Freeland says Ottawa must immediately publish a consultation on a detailed, dollar-for-dollar retaliation plan that includes Florida oranges, Wi...
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Ford's decision to speed up alcohol sales expansion to cost province $612M: report
TORONTO - Ontario's budget watchdog estimates that the government's decision to speed up the rollout of alcohol sales in corner stores will cost the province more than $600 million. That's nearly three times the amount the Progressive Conservative government said it would cost to accelerate the timeline. The Financial ...
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In the news today: Trudeau in Poland for Auschwitz anniversary
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Trudeau in Poland for Auschwitz anniversary Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Krakow, Poland, where leaders from around the world are gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The not...
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Five years on, Chinese Canadians recall ridicule and racism over pandemic precautions
VANCOUVER - In early 2020, Lili Wu was already "armed to the teeth" whenever she ventured to public places near her home in Port Coquitlam, B.C. - face mask, sanitizer, protective eyewear and gloves. It was more than a month before the World Health Organization's March declaration of a global pandemic that in...
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World leaders, survivors in Poland for 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
KRAKOW - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Krakow, Poland, where leaders from around the world are gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The notorious Nazi extermination camp is where historians estimate more than one million people, mostly Jews, were killed during the...
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Foreign Affairs Minister Joly says Canadian released from detention in Afghanistan
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canadian David Lavery has safely made it to Qatar from Afghanistan with the help of the Qatari government. The Canadian Armed Forces veteran went missing in Kabul back in November, according to the Veterans Transition Network. Lavery had been working with the group to...
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