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Impaired driving check stops raise concerns during pandemic
PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George RCMP have been conducting their annual winter impaired driving check stops. Although impaired driving check stops are a benefit to the community, some are raising con...
Dec 09, 2020
Long-term care workers to get priority vaccination in B.C. to protect elderly: doctor
VICTORIA - British Columbia's top doctor says health-care workers in long-term care facilities and intensive care units will be the first to be immunized against COVID-19 with the Pfizer vaccine start...
Dec 09, 2020
27 new cases of COVID-19 in Northern Health
VICTORIA - Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced 619 new cases of COVID-19 in British Columbia today (Dec.9).Twenty-seven of those new cases were in Northern Health though the bulk were...
Dec 09, 2020
Long-term care workers to get priority vaccination in B.C. to protect elderly: doctor
VICTORIA - British Columbia's top doctor says health-care workers in long-term care facilities and intensive care units will be the first to be immunized against COVID-19 with the Pfizer vaccine start...
Dec 09, 2020
Spruce Kings take a pause, players head home for extended break
PRINCE GEORGE - The BCHL was to already have had a handful of games played with Tuesday (Dec. 8) marking what was the re-adjusted start date for the regular season. Following Provincial Health Officer...
Dec 09, 2020
Jury convicts Illinois man in Minnesota mosque bombing
MINNEAPOLIS - A jury on Wednesday convicted the leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group of several civil rights and hate crime charges in the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque. Prosecutor...
Dec 09, 2020
Man charged after targeting Somali women in parking lot of Edmonton mall
EDMONTON - A 41-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly yelled racial slurs at two Somali woman wearing hijabs in an Edmonton mall parking lot.Police say in a news release that they responded...
Dec 09, 2020
Women's Hall of Fame honours Aretha Franklin, Morrison, Lacks
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. - "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin and Nobel laureate and "Beloved" author Toni Morrison will be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame Thursday as part of a posthumous clas...
Dec 09, 2020
A match made in Heaven
PRINCE GEORGE - "Leave the best and take the rest." That's how Liam Parfitt, Owner of Freya Logging describes commercial thinning. It's a type of log harvesting practice that is commonplace in Europe....
Dec 09, 2020
Lametti questions Conservatives' sincerity in wanting to protect vulnerable
OTTAWA - Justice Minister David Lametti says Conservatives have no interest in improving a bill on assisted dying, they just want to stop it. The Conservatives have been talking out the clock on Bill ...
Dec 09, 2020