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PRINCE GEORGE - The University of Northern British Columbia has placed fifth out of 19 post-secondary institutions in the best small university category in the annual Maclean's magazine rankings of Ca...

OTTAWA - Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef says the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the conditions that make women, children and gender-diverse people vulnerable to violence. She says that's wh...

ISLAMABAD - The Afghan Taliban on Thursday welcomed a tweet from President Donald Trump in which he promised to have the last of U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Christmas - or at least by the end of...

PRINCE GEORGE - A 41-year-old Prince George man is facing multiple charges following an alleged break and enter Monday morning.Prince George RCMP received a report of a break and enter just after 8 a....

OTTAWA - The federal privacy czar says the COVID-19 pandemic is underscoring weaknesses in the law that place the personal information of Canadians at risk. In his annual report presented to Parliamen...

PRINCE GEORGE - Local Mounties made nine arrests yesterday morning following the execution of a search warrant at a home on Nation Crescent in Prince George.Police say the warrant was executed by the ...

FREDERICTON - Testimony at the Matthew Raymond murder trial in Fredericton is on hold until Friday morning. Justice Larry Landry of the Court of Queen's Bench told the jury today that a Supreme Court ...

OTTAWA - A new Statistics Canada report says more than two-thirds of students at the country's military colleges personally witnessed or experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in the past year. The fin...

MONTREAL - Premier Francois Legault says the province is reporting 1,078 new COVID-19 cases and nine more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. Legault told reporters today hospitalizations incr...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says the federal carbon tax would have to rise over the coming years if the country is to meet emission-reduction targets under the Paris climate accord. The ...