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RCMP Officer Bitten by Dog While Breaking Up a Fight in a Fort St John Parking Lot
One RCMP officer was sent to hospital last week after being bitten by a dog while attempting to break up a fight in a Fort St John parking lot. Police were called out to the lot on the 10600 block of ...
Mar 03, 2023
Adastra Labs Rescinds Statement, Clarifies That License Amendment Only Allows Cocaine Sales to Other License Holders
Adastra Labs is retracting comments made in a February news release implying they had recieved approval to distribute cocaine. Last month, Health Canada approved an amendment to the Langley-based cann...
Mar 03, 2023
Ottawa Invests $2 billion Over 10 Years to Address Gaps in Health Care Services in Indigenous Communities
Fresh Federal funding is on the way to help reduce emergency wait times and improve access to primary care in Indigenous communities. An investment of $2 billion over the next 10 years aims to address...
Mar 03, 2023
Bella Coola RCMP Team Up With Local Volunteers to Clean Up the Community... in a More Literal Sense
RCMP teamed up with the Bella Coola Support Society yesterday to help clean up the community... in a more literal sense. Officers and volunteers helped to fill two police vehicles and two of the Socie...
Mar 03, 2023
Avalanche Risks Back Up to Considerable Levels Across the North, One Day After BC's Sixth Deadly Slide Since November
After a brief break, avalanche risks across most of the North are back to considerable levels. Deep storm slabs created over the past few weeks remain reactive, in addition to a weak lower snowpack st...
Mar 03, 2023
Province Announces Exactly How Much of their New $1 Billion Infrastructure Fund Each Community Will Get
We now know just how much each community will receive from the Province's new Growing Communities Fund. Announced last month, that fund will provide a one-time total of $1 billion to be split between ...
Mar 03, 2023
Terrace sees little community feedback amid highest tax increase to date
The City of Terrace received only 26 responses to their recent 2023 budget consultation survey while a property tax of over 10 per cent is being considered. This represents a very small sample size of...
Mar 03, 2023
Kitimat RCMP Respond to Three Separate Motor Vehicle Collisions in One Afternoon, Advise Drivers to Slow Down
It was a busy afternoon for Kitimat RCMP last Saturday as they responded to three separate motor vehicle collisions. Two were fairly minor single-vehicle incidents which saw cars slide off the road on...
Mar 03, 2023
Four Projects Receive a Combined $885,000 in New Grant Funding from Northern Development
Four projects are splitting $885,000 in fresh grant funding from the Northern Development Initiative Trust. $300,000 of that will go towards the construction of a new, zero-carbon, accessible gymnasiu...
Mar 03, 2023
Premier Eby Upset After Learning Health Canada May Have Approved a Company to Manufacture and Distribute Cocaine
Premier David Eby is looking for answers after learning that a Langley-based cannabis company may have been approved to distribute cocaine. Adastra Labs says that Health Canada approved an amendment t...
Mar 02, 2023