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PG hockey teams banding together to strengthen player development
A partnership between all levels of competitive hockey in Prince George is strengthening. From bantam to Midget, to the BCHL and WHL, teams in the city are tightening ties together in an effort to max...
Aug 09, 2019
Canada beats Nigeria 96-87 in Nick Nurse's Canadian team coaching debut
TORONTO - Nick Nurse is already leaving his stamp on Canada's national men's basketball team just one game into his tenure as head coach. Less than two months after guiding the Toronto Raptors to thei...
Aug 09, 2019
Hart Night Market wraps up after a successful summer
PRINCE GEORGE- It was the third and last Hart Night Market for the summer yesterday (Thursday).There's a huge variety of vendors who set up. With so many customers walking through, many vendors have a...
Aug 09, 2019
Williams beats Osaka 6-3, 6-4 in first meeting after controversial US Open final
TORONTO - The rematch between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka didn't last long. Williams handled Osaka 6-3, 6-4, on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Rogers Cup. It was the first time they played eac...
Aug 09, 2019
New Michael Moore-backed doc tackles alternative energy
LOS ANGELES - What if alternative energy isn't all it's cracked up to be? That's the provocative question explored in the documentary "Planet of the Humans," which is backed and promoted by filmmaker ...
Aug 09, 2019
Prince Georgian? Prince Georgite? What do you think people from PG are called?
PRINCE GEORGE- People from Calgary are Calgarians, people from Vancouver are Vancouverites- but what are people from Prince George called?Each person in the city is unique, so putting one label on eve...
Aug 09, 2019
Hanus earns another Pan Am swimming medal for Canada with silver
LIMA, Peru - Danielle Hanus had a bounce-back performace on her second day in the pool at the Pan Am Games. Hanus won a silver medal on Wednesday in the women's 100-metre butterfly, a day after&n...
Aug 09, 2019
UNBC scientists monitor impacts of climate change on local wetlands
PRINCE GEORGE- UNBC scientists are discovering "concerning" and "exciting" new facts about wetlands in the heart of the Robson Valley.Dr. Darwyn Coxson a leading researcher on biodiversity and conserv...
Aug 09, 2019 Dr.Darwyn Coxson, Ecoystem Science and Management Professor at UNBC. Courtesy of UNBC
Walmart pulls violent game displays but will still sell guns
NEW YORK - Walmart has ordered workers to remove video game signs and displays that depict violence from stores nationwide after 22 people died in a shooting at one of its Texas stores, but the big bo...
Aug 09, 2019
Man cooking in Walmart lot sets van on fire, killing girl
MINNEAPOLIS - A 70-year-old man camping in a Walmart parking lot put a hot cook stove in his van, causing it to catch fire and spread to another van, burning two young sisters and killing one of them,...
Aug 09, 2019