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Enforcement measures build on success of non-essential travel restrictions
PRINCE GEORGE - To help keep communities safe and protect British Columbia's health-care system from COVID-19, the Province has authorized site-specific road checks on travel corridors between regions...
Apr 30, 2021
In major decision, Grammys cut nomination review committees
NEW YORK - The Grammy Awards have changed its tune and voted to remove its nomination review committees - groups that determined the contenders for key awards at the coveted music show. The Recording ...
Apr 30, 2021
Heritage committee won't reverse change to Bill C-10 despite public outcry
OTTAWA - Liberal and opposition members of Parliament split along party lines Friday while discussing the public outcry sparked by the adoption of a new amendment to Bill C-10.The bill sponsored by He...
Apr 30, 2021
Highwater Advisory
PRINCE GEORGE - A combination of warmer overnight temperatures and rainfall through areas around Prince George have scientists at the River Forecast Centre issuing a high streamflow advisory. River le...
Apr 30, 2021
CNC Board approves a deficit budget for the first time
PRINCE GEORGE - The Board for the College of New Caledonia has approved a deficit budget of $3,569,000 with no discussion. The Board passed the budget of $77,219,135 in revenues and $80,785,135 in exp...
Apr 30, 2021
Flight cancellations to India delay shipment of man's body from British Columbia
VANCOUVER - The body of a man that was supposed to be flown home to India from British Columbia just before the federal government stopped flights is now in limbo as his family scrambles to get the re...
Apr 30, 2021
Auschwitz inmates' families oppose ex-PM on museum council
WARSAW, Poland - Relatives of former Auschwitz prisoners from Poland are protesting the appointment of a top member of the country's right-wing ruling party to an advisory council at the state-run Aus...
Apr 30, 2021
Flight cancellations to India delay shipment of man's body from British Columbia
VANCOUVER - The body of a man that was supposed to be flown home to India from British Columbia just before the federal government stopped flights is now in limbo as his family scrambles to get the re...
Apr 30, 2021
Most people moved inside after Vancouver park encampment shut down: city
VANCOUVER - The City of Vancouver says a tent encampment in Strathcona Park has come to a close as the majority of people who had been sleeping there have now moved into government-organized accommoda...
Apr 30, 2021
Hold on! 240-pound fish, age 100, caught in Detroit River
DETROIT - Now that's a whopper - a very old whopper! A 240-pound (108.8 kilograms) sturgeon that could be more than 100 years old was caught last week in the Detroit River by the U.S. Fish and Wildlif...
Apr 30, 2021