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PG Grays make Spruce City Fastball debut Wednesday night
There hasn't been much to cheer for locally here in Prince George on the sports scene, but the Spruce City Fastball League is the one league that has been able to take to the field.Last week the seaso...
Jul 30, 2020
29 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C.
VICTORIA-29 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in B.C. today (July 30), none of those were in the Northern Health region.The north remains at 86 test-positive cases, with Provincial Health Officer, D...
Jul 30, 2020
Cougars ink Karkkainen
The Prince George Cougars announced Thursday afternoon that they have signed Jonni Karkkainen to a WHL Standard Player Agreement.Karkkainen, a 2003 born forward from Finland, was selected 12th overall...
Jul 30, 2020
B.C. tabs Thompson Rivers University to study wildfire prediction, responses
VICTORIA - A university located in the heart of one of British Columbia's most volatile forest fire regions will lead new research in wildfire prediction and response. Forests Minister Doug Donaldson ...
Jul 30, 2020
Expansion of Alberta coal mine will need federal review: environment minister
OTTAWA - The federal environment minister is backtracking on a previous decision to keep Ottawa out of the approval process for a major coal mine expansion in Alberta. The existing Vista mine, which i...
Jul 30, 2020
Wiggins, Raptors vow to continue racial justice work after the restart tips off
John Wiggins' big fear was that when the NBA restart tipped off in Florida, the world would forget about George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, and the conversation around racial injustice wo...
Jul 30, 2020
Mass killer had hiding spaces for guns, but drug smuggling not verified: RCMP
HALIFAX - RCMP investigators confirmed Thursday that the gunman who went on a rampage in Nova Scotia in April had hidden compartments in buildings and had converted personal assets into ...
Jul 30, 2020
Gaga, Grande top MTV VMA noms; quarantine categories added
NEW YORK - It's raining nominations for Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande's "Rain on Me" at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, which will present new categories focused on live performances and music videos c...
Jul 30, 2020
In an upside-down summer, 'Jaws,' 'E.T.' are hits again
NEW YORK - When historians look back on the top films at the box office in the summer of 2020, they may feel like they've slipped into a time warp, or maybe "Back to the Future." Over the second weeke...
Jul 30, 2020
Ottawa initially refused to hold joint inquiry into mass killing: N.S. minister
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's justice minister says he privately pushed Ottawa for a full federal-provincial public inquiry into the April mass shooting but federal officials initially r...
Jul 30, 2020