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Utah event celebrates Transcontinental Railroad anniversary
PROMONTORY, Utah - Music, bells and cannon fire rang out Friday at a remote spot in the Utah desert where the final spikes of the Transcontinental Railroad were hammered 150 years ago, uniting a natio...
May 10, 2019
Growing demand for people with a Liberal Arts background, study says
PRINCE GEORGE- In a technically advancing world, it may be assumed there's mostly a demand for people with technical skills. According to a recent RBC study, that may not be the case. The study found ...
May 10, 2019 Kim Hayhurst, Hey K Marketing Creative Director
B.C. Speaker apologizes for speech that says Hells Angels, Mafia 'successful'
VICTORIA - The Speaker of British Columbia's legislature says a speech he gave this week about leadership went sideways and he is apologizing for offending people. Darryl Plecas says the point he...
May 10, 2019
33 Northern Medical Grads Get Their Shingles
PRINCE GEORGE - For the twelfth year, the Northern Medical Program has graduated another round of physicians, 33 this time.Of those 33, eight are from Prince George. They will now go into between two ...
May 10, 2019 NMP Grads
'You are free to leave': How the case against Mark Norman ended
OTTAWA - Vice-Admiral Mark Norman had walked up to the entrance of the Ottawa courthouse dozens of previous times over the past year, yet this time was different: This would be the last time. Like on ...
May 10, 2019
Goodale disputes charge that bill maintains solitary confinement by another name
OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale is disputing claims that a bill to end solitary confinement in Canada's prisons is merely "linguistic trickery" that maintains the practice unde...
May 10, 2019
B.C. Speaker apologizes for speech that says Hells Angels, Mafia 'successful'
VICTORIA - The Speaker of British Columbia's legislature says a speech he gave this week about leadership went sideways and he is apologizing for offending people. Darryl Plecas says the point he...
May 10, 2019
Bait bike program leads to three arrests
PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George RCMP is taking aim at bike thieves.It has done so by launching a bait bike program. Cpl. Craig Douglass says the new program hit the streets yesterday (May 9) to quic...
May 10, 2019 Springdt313 | Dreamstime.com
New Canadian fighter jets will need U.S. certification: DND
OTTAWA - Canada's top military procurement official says the U.S. will have to sign off on whatever fighter jet this country purchases, but that he is not concerned about political interference. Patri...
May 10, 2019
Below-normal snowpacks in northern B.C.
PRINCE GEORGE - It's a good news/bad news scenario when it comes to snowpack levels across the province as the BC River Forecast Centre released its bi-monthly report this week.The latest snow survey ...
May 10, 2019 Roman Stetsyk - dreamstime