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SD57 students score below BC average in FSA testing
PRINCE GEORGE - The latest numbers from the Foundation Skills Assessments (FSA) are in for students in School District 57 (SD57).Students in Grades 4 and 7 take the assessment annually unless they cho...
Apr 29, 2022

Accounting firms busy with Tax Season approaching
PRINCE GEORGE- It's Tax Season once - the busiest time of year for accounting firms that provide tax, and advisory services like KPMG especially with the Easter Long Weekend a little later in the mont...
Apr 29, 2022

COFI wraps up for another year
NORTHERN BC - While the issue of old growth was highlighted outside the hotel where the convention has been underway for two days, but the conversation inside was around other issues impacting the for...
Apr 29, 2022

Canada's Auger-Aliassime loses to Korda in Estoril Open quarterfinals
ESTORIL, Portugal - Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime was eliminated from the Estoril Open tennis tournament after a 6-2, 6-2 quarterfinal loss to American Sebastian Korda on Friday. Auger-Aliassime, t...
Apr 29, 2022

Palestinian assailants shoot dead Israeli guard in West Bank
JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian assailants shot and killed a security guard at the entrance of a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank late Friday, the Israeli military said, in a fresh attack that...
Apr 29, 2022

Former Tory MP Leona Alleslev misses fundraising deadline for leadership race
OTTAWA - Former Conservative MP Leona Alleslev says she has failed to raise the thousands of dollars needed to make it as a candidate in the party's leadership race Alleslev announced she was no longe...
Apr 29, 2022

Third B.C. poultry flock tests positive for avian flu in Kootenay region
VICTORIA - A small poultry flock in British Columbia's Kootenay region has tested positive for the avian flu, the third known outbreak in the province. A statement from B.C.'s Agriculture Ministry say...
Apr 29, 2022

MPs debate Keira's Law to require judicial training on domestic violence
OTTAWA - Judges will have to undergo regular training on domestic violence and coercive control if a bill known as Keira's Law passes through Parliament. It is named in honour of four-year-old Keira K...
Apr 29, 2022

City applies for more downtown funding
PRINCE GEORGE - The Strengthening Communities fund is a provincial envelope of money and its purpose is twofold: to help the unsheltered and to help offset the impacts on neighbours of those unshelter...
Apr 29, 2022

NY to move some primaries to August after court tosses maps
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York New York will hold its congressional and state Senate primaries on Aug. 23, a state judge ordered Friday. Steuben County Judge Patrick McAllister said that special master ...
Apr 29, 2022