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CNN, MSNBC viewers flip for Biden; Fox audience slumps
NEW YORK - Nothing illustrates the political passions of a television network's audience quite like ratings for a presidential inaugural. The 6.53 million people who watched President Joe Biden take t...
Jan 21, 2021

McConnell seeks to push Trump impeachment trial to February
WASHINGTON - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is proposing to push back the start of Donald Trump's impeachment trial to February to give the former president time to prepare and review his ca...
Jan 21, 2021

World leaders cheer US return to climate fight under Biden
BERLIN - World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that his predecessor had shunn...
Jan 21, 2021

Bunkhouse build program helps Scouts Group
.PRINCE GEORGE - For the second year in a row, Kopar Administration LTD and a local Scouts Canada group have teamed up to build another round of Bunkhouses for its regional scouts' campsites. The Kopa...
Jan 21, 2021

Alice Hoagland, gay-rugby godmother and 9-11 activist, dies
Alice Hoagland, a beloved figure of the gay rugby movement that her own son, Mark Bingham, helped set in motion shortly before he perished in the 2001 terrorist attacks as one of the heroes of Flight ...
Jan 21, 2021

ESG's growing in the resource sector
PRINCE GEORGE - The world of the resource sector is an ever-changing one. And it is changing again. It's called "Environmental, social, and governance" and it has been an expression used a lot at this...
Jan 21, 2021

SD57 Superintendent on leave with no timeline to return
PRINCE GEORGE - School District 57 Superintendent Anita Richardson has gone on leave confirmed to CKPG News by School Board Chair Trent Derrick."I can confirm she is on leave at the moment and Deputy ...
Jan 21, 2021

Taxpayers Federation seeks recall for civic officials
PRINCE GEORGE - The BC arm of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is seeking to have local politicians added to the list of those who can be recalled under provincial legislation. "More and more money a...
Jan 21, 2021

76 new cases of COVID-19 in Northern Health
VICTORIA - British Columbia's provincial government has announced 564 new cases of COVID-19 today, including 76 in Northern Health. That brings the total number of cases since the pandemic began to 62...
Jan 21, 2021

Canadians react as Julie Payette steps down as Governor General
OTTAWA - "Every employee in the government of Canada has the right to work in a safe and healthy environment, and we will always take this very seriously. Today's announcement provides an opportunity ...
Jan 21, 2021