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April is Construction Month
PRINCE GEORGE - April is Construction Month and the annual Lunch Bucket Challenge took place today, with free lunch for the crew working on a project for PRD Construction. Construction was and is cons...
Apr 01, 2022
Olive's Branch turns three
PRINCE GEORGE - Gordon Carpenter is the maintenance man at Olive's Branch. But he wasn't always. A short time ago, he was living on the streets addicted to drugs. Heroin, his first drug of choice. "I ...
Apr 01, 2022
B.C. passes 3,000 COVID-19 deaths
VICTORIA-British Columbia has surpassed the grim milestone of 3,000 deaths since the COVID-19 pandemic began.The Ministry of Health reported in today's update that four more people have died from COVI...
Apr 01, 2022
Judge upholds Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction
NEW YORK (AP) - A U.S. judge refused to throw out Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction Friday, despite a juror's failure to disclose before the trial began that he'd been a victim of childho...
Apr 01, 2022
Maple Leafs No. 1 goaltender Jack Campbell set to return from rib injury
TORONTO - Jack Campbell has been through plenty of tough times. Selected by the Dallas Stars with the 11th pick in the 2010 draft, the highly-touted goaltender waited until the 2018-19 season to final...
Apr 01, 2022
B.C. defers logging across an additional 1.7 million hectares of at-risk old growth
VICTORIA - British Columbia's forests minister says the province has worked with First Nations to defer logging across more than a million hectares of at-risk old-growth forests, an area greater than ...
Apr 01, 2022
Longtime Canadian Press sportswriter Neil Stevens saw it all and told it well
Former Canadian Press sportswriter Neil Stevens, who earned Hall of Fame recognition in both lacrosse and hockey while criss-crossing the globe in more than three decades with the national news agency...
Apr 01, 2022
Youth escapes after being abducted in Pouce Coupe
POUCE COUPE - Mounties are seeking information from the public after a youth escaped after being abducted Wednesday night (March 30) in Pouce Coupe.Dawson Creek RCMP say the youth had been riding a bi...
Apr 01, 2022
Hope Solo arrested on DWI, child abuse charges
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - Former U.S. women's national team star goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in North Carolina with her 2-year-old t...
Apr 01, 2022
U.S. authorities issue final order allowing P.E.I. table potatoes back over border
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has lifted the final barrier that was keeping table potatoes from Prince Edward Island out of the United States. A final federal order posted today clea...
Apr 01, 2022