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Nashville musicians find themselves without jobs or benefits
NASHVILLE - Colin Poulton moved to Nashville in 2008 to study commercial guitar. He dropped out of college but stuck with the city and the guitar, first playing in a series of original bands and more ...
Apr 25, 2020

EU rallies Canada, allies to help WHO after Trump temporarily withdraws funding
OTTAWA - The European Union is planning a major pledging conference early next month to help fill the World Health Organization's funding gaps, and it expects Canada to play a key role. Brice de ...
Apr 25, 2020

Cariboo Regional District issues evacuation orders
Williams Lake - Five homes in the Cariboo Regional District (CRD) have fallen under evacuation orders. The orders were issued Friday evening by the CRD Emergency Operations Centre as floodwaters throu...
Apr 24, 2020 Image Credit: Michael Gaida/File

Evacuation alert issued for 36 homes in the Chilako River area
PRINCE GEORGE - The Regional District of Fraser-Fort George (RDFFG) has issued an evacuation alert for 36 residences in the Chilako River area.This is in addition to the 40 property owners under evacu...
Apr 24, 2020

Pittsburgh takes Canadian-born receiver Claypool in second round of NFL draft
The Pittsburgh Steelers selected Canadian receiver Chase Claypool in the second round of the NFL draft Friday night. Claypool was the 17th player taken in the round, 49th overall. Claypool, ...
Apr 24, 2020

Stronger, more modern B.C. legal system to emerge from COVID pandemic: minister
VICTORIA - Attorney General David Eby says the COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in British Columbia's legal system, weaknesses that have forged a unified effort to build a stronger,...
Apr 24, 2020

Vancouver Whitecaps look to help financially troubled aquarium survive
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps have joined forces with the Vancouver Aquarium to sell face masks with proceeds going to help keep the financially troubled aquarium afloat. The aquarium, a not-for...
Apr 24, 2020

Two killed in south Cariboo Highway 97 crash
CLINTON, B.C. - Two men were killed in a head-on crash in 70 Mile House Thursday afternoon (Apr. 24).Mounties say a 70 Mile House man and a man from Tumbler Ridge were pronounced dead at the scene. Bo...
Apr 24, 2020 Photo courtesy CFJC Today

Quesnel declares a state of local emergency
QUESNEL - The risk of flooding along Baker Creek has prompted the City of Quesnel to order a state of local emergency.The City says this allows it to respond to the threat of flooding which could pote...
Apr 24, 2020

29 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C.; no new cases in Northern Health
VICTORIA - Twenty-nine new cases of COVID-19 in B.C. over the past 24 hours - none of those in the Northern Health region where the total number of infected remains at 42. 1853 cases total in the prov...
Apr 24, 2020