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RCMP dispute photojournalist's account of arrest while covering pipeline protest
VANCOUVER - The RCMP say a photojournalist who is suing the force was not exempt from complying with a court injunction while reporting on protests over the Coastal GasLink pipeline that's nearing com...
Oct 12, 2023
Residential School survivor supports Library's latest project
The completion of the Prince George Public Library's (PGPL) project to update subject headings regarding Indigenous documents has recently been completed, which residential school survivor Elder Cliff...
Oct 12, 2023
Coyote suspected of attacks on humans put down
PRINCE GEORGE - The BC Conservation Officer Service has euthanized a coyote suspected of attacking at least six people in the downtown Prince George area.Sgt. Eamon McArthur says they caught the coyot...
Oct 12, 2023
Rockets' Dillon Brooks fined $25,000 for reckless hit on Pacers' Theis
NEW YORK - The NBA has fined Houston Rockets guard-forward Dillon Brooks US$25,000 for recklessly making contact with Indiana Pacers centre Daniel Theis. Brooks was assessed a flagrant-2 foul and ejec...
Oct 12, 2023
Federal effort to boost child care in three provinces off to 'slow start': report
An analysis by a public-policy group has found that federal funding meant to bring $10-a-day child care across Canada has stumbled with a "slow start" and "underwhelming results" in three provinces wh...
Oct 12, 2023
B.C. church group, caught between Israel-Hamas war, struggles to get home
VANCOUVER - A group from a British Columbia church that had been touring historical sites in Israel when Hamas fighters began killing civilians is struggling to find a way home with the confusion of t...
Oct 12, 2023
B.C. church group, caught between Israel-Hamas war, struggles to get home
VANCOUVER - A group from a British Columbia church that had been touring historical sites in Israel when Hamas fighters began killing civilians is struggling to find a way home with the confusion of t...
Oct 12, 2023
Second raid in six months yields more stolen goods from Williams Lake motel
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Mounties were back at a Williams Lake motel last week - less than six months after their last raid of the property.In a news release issued Thursday (Oct. 12), RCMP say they carr...
Oct 12, 2023
BC Prosecution Service announces no charges following in-custody death
PRINCE GEORGE - The BC Prosecution Service has announced that no charges have been approved against a member of the Prince George RCMP in connection with the death of an Indigenous person arrested and...
Oct 12, 2023
Industry prepares as avian flu cases expected to increase as birds migrate south
VANCOUVER - Animal health experts are warning about avian flu returning to poultry farms as wild birds begin migrating south for the winter. Ray Nickel, spokesman for the B.C. Poultry Association Emer...
Oct 12, 2023