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New-look TWolves looking to fill shoes left by departed players
PRINCE GEORGE - The UNBC Timberwolves women's basketball team looks a lot different than the short-handed squad that won nine in a row to make it to the Canada West Quarter-Finals. But nonetheless, th...
Sep 28, 2021

Former PGRCC inmate creates murals dedicated to Indigenous heritage
PRINCE GEORGE - Dylon Mclemore, who was involved in gang life, spent several months at Prince George Regional Correctional Centre. While incarcerated, he was given the opportunity to use his artistic ...
Sep 28, 2021

LEADING OFF: Yanks' Cole faces Jays in potential last start
A look at what's happening around the majors Wednesday ___ WILD, WILD EAST Yankees ace Gerrit Cole makes what might be his final start of the regular season in a critical showdown against Toronto. New...
Sep 28, 2021

Trudeau says moving on vaccine mandate for federal workers, travellers priority No. 1
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government's first priority postelection will be to move ahead with plans to require travellers to be fully vaccinated before getting on a plane or trai...
Sep 28, 2021

Maryland newspaper gunman gets more than 5 life prison terms
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A man who killed five people at a newspaper in Maryland was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole. Anne Arundel County Judge Mic...
Sep 28, 2021

B.C. judge denies injunction extension over Fairy Creek logging
VICTORIA - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has denied a forest company's application to extend an injunction against blockades by people opposed to the logging of old-growth trees in the Fairy ...
Sep 28, 2021

Canadian Conference of Bishops pledge $30M for survivors of residential schools
OTTAWA - The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is pledging to fundraise $30 million for projects to help residential school survivors heal from their trauma. President Raymond Poisson says it wa...
Sep 28, 2021

Vancouver school trustees vote in favour of masks for students in K-3 grades
VANCOUVER - School trustees in Vancouver have voted unanimously in favour of requiring masks to be worn by students in kindergarten to Grade 3. Mask mandates set by British Columbia's provincial healt...
Sep 28, 2021

117 new cases of COVID-19 in northern BC
VICTORIA - The number of British Columbians fully vaccinated continues to inch upwards.The province says 80.6% of eligible people 12 and older are now fully vaccinated.A total of 652 new cases announc...
Sep 28, 2021

Forge FC defeats Panama's Independiente, advances to CONCACAF League quarterfinal
PANAMA CITY - Mo Babouli and Kyle Bekker scored as 10-man Forge FC defeated Panama's Independiente 2-0 Tuesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Scotiabank CONCACAF League. Babouli was in the thick of...
Sep 28, 2021