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Spruce Kings showhome ticket deadline less than a week away
Each and every year the Spruce Kings showhome is the clubs biggest fundraiser.This years edition of the showhome lottery was on pace to be a very good year for the club, but ticket sales have declined...
Apr 21, 2020 (photo credit to SpruceKingsshowhome.com)
Mantel, Evaristo among finalists for fiction's Women's Prize
LONDON - Hilary Mantel's Tudor blockbuster "The Mirror and the Light" and Bernardine Evaristo's tapestry of black women's stories, "Girl, Woman, Other," are among six finalists for the international W...
Apr 21, 2020
New Partnership provides medical equipment
PRINCE GEORGE- They say necessity is the mother of invention, and a new partnership has identified a huge need globally. "So the STL file is basically information that goes to a slicing software and s...
Apr 21, 2020
Brown University lineman Hoecht cracks CFL Scouting Bureau's top-20 list
TORONTO - Michael Hoecht couldn't have picked a better time to crack the CFL Scouting Bureau's top-20 list. The Brown University defensive lineman made his first appearance Monday on the list&nbs...
Apr 21, 2020
FIFA says support of women's game will continue
Soccer's international governing body says it will maintain funding for women's soccer despite concerns about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Following the Women's World Cup last year, FIFA Pr...
Apr 21, 2020
YXS continues to operate for essential travel only, passenger numbers down compared to last year
PRINCE GEORGE-The Prince George Airport remains open despite the drop in flights due to the COVID-19 situation.Both Air Canada and WestJet continue to operate flights to Vancouver for essential travel...
Apr 21, 2020 CKPG News File Image.
SD57 reminding public to social distance on district property
PRINCE GEORGE- School District 57 (SD57) is reminding the public that social distancing measures should be in practice regardless of where you are, and that includes fields and courts.In a release by ...
Apr 21, 2020 CKPG News File Image
Mourners struggle to grieve N.S. mass-murder victims during pandemic
The death toll from a massacre that stretched across rural Nova Scotia last weekend was still being counted Tuesday as families grappled with another uncertainty: how to mourn during a pandemic t...
Apr 21, 2020
'Because it's cold': What stops you from picking up your pup's poop during the winter?
PRINCE GEORGE-Many of us may be eager to welcome spring, however, that can quickly change once the snow melts to reveal what pet owners have left behind-poop.So why don't people clean up after their p...
Apr 21, 2020 Terry McClymont, Executive Director of REAPS says that some pet owners may not clean up after their pets during the winter months because it's cold outside and they want to head indoors. (Photo Courtesy, Veronica Beltran, CKPG News)
COVID-19 latest hurdle in Canada's long road to buying new fighter jets
OTTAWA - The COVID-19 pandemic is presenting another challenge to Canada's long-running and tumultuous effort to buy new fighter jets. The federal government last summer launched a long-awaited compet...
Apr 21, 2020