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A BC Hydro crew works to restore power around 8 a.m. Aug. 17 after a vehicle accident on Lakelse Ave. near the Terrace Royal Canadian Legion knocked out power for over 1,000 customers. (Ben Bogstie/Terrace Standard)

Vehicle incident knocks out power in Terrace

Crash occurred on Lakelse Ave. near Royal Canadian Legion

A BC Hydro crew works to restore power around 8 a.m. Aug. 17 after a vehicle accident on Lakelse Ave. near the Terrace Royal Canadian Legion knocked out power for over 1,000 customers. (Ben Bogstie/Terrace Standard)
The Terrace & District Aquatic Centre is set to reopen Sept. 14 (under modified conditions) after closing in March due to the pandemic. (File photo)

Terrace and District Aquatic Centre to reopen in September

City lays out pandemic safety plans for reopening indoor recreation spaces, including pool and arena

The Terrace & District Aquatic Centre is set to reopen Sept. 14 (under modified conditions) after closing in March due to the pandemic. (File photo)
Dempsey Bob is an internationally-acclaimed Tlingit/Tahltan artist and carver who grew up in the Northwest and has lived in Terrace for the last 14 years. (Harold Demetzer photo/courtesy Margaret Bob)

Skeena Voices | World-renowned Indigenous artist has Northwest roots

Dempsey Bob looks back on his early years and his formation as an artist

Dempsey Bob is an internationally-acclaimed Tlingit/Tahltan artist and carver who grew up in the Northwest and has lived in Terrace for the last 14 years. (Harold Demetzer photo/courtesy Margaret Bob)
Terrace RCMP are asking for information about a single-vehicle crash east of Terrace that claimed one life. (File image)

One dead after single-vehicle crash east of Terrace

Cause unknown, RCMP asking public for information

Terrace RCMP are asking for information about a single-vehicle crash east of Terrace that claimed one life. (File image)
Terrace Mayor Carol Leclerc, Deputy Fire Chief Dave Jephson, and LNG Canada representative Jennifer Prochera stand next to Terrace’s new rescue vehicle at the Terrace fire hall Aug. 6. (Jake Wray/Terrace Standard)

Terrace Fire Department gets new rescue truck

$500,000 donation from LNG Canada went toward new truck, with remainder of funds coming from City

Terrace Mayor Carol Leclerc, Deputy Fire Chief Dave Jephson, and LNG Canada representative Jennifer Prochera stand next to Terrace’s new rescue vehicle at the Terrace fire hall Aug. 6. (Jake Wray/Terrace Standard)
Taylor Bachrach, MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley, visited the Terrace Women’s Resource Centre July 22 to sign three claim forms on behalf of people who survived abuse at federal Indian day schools. (Jake Wray/Terrace Standard)

Survivors of abuse at Indian day schools could use help accessing compensation, advocate says

Class-action against federal government now settled but application form to claim funds is rigorous

Taylor Bachrach, MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley, visited the Terrace Women’s Resource Centre July 22 to sign three claim forms on behalf of people who survived abuse at federal Indian day schools. (Jake Wray/Terrace Standard)
Phil Germuth, District of Kitimat mayor, and David Pfeiffer, president of Coastal GasLink, break ground on the Kitimat meter station Aug. 6, 2020. The meter station will compress and measure gas leaving the pipeline destined for LNG Canada’s export terminal. (Photo courtesy Coastal GasLink)

Coastal GasLink breaks ground on meter station in Kitimat

Meter station marks final point on pipeline that stretches from Northeast B.C.

Phil Germuth, District of Kitimat mayor, and David Pfeiffer, president of Coastal GasLink, break ground on the Kitimat meter station Aug. 6, 2020. The meter station will compress and measure gas leaving the pipeline destined for LNG Canada’s export terminal. (Photo courtesy Coastal GasLink)
City of Terrace officials say all is going well after postponing penalties for late 2020 property taxes. (File Photo)

Terrace property tax payments steadily coming in

City postponed penalties for late 2020 taxes in response to pandemic uncertainty

City of Terrace officials say all is going well after postponing penalties for late 2020 property taxes. (File Photo)
Jill Stephens is a community activist and a First Nations access co-ordinator at Coast Mountain College. She is seen here in her office at the Waap Galts’ap longhouse on the college’s Terrace campus. (Jake Wray/Terrace Standard)

Skeena Voices | ‘I’m here to raise your voice up so others can hear you’

Jill Stephens, 29, works supporting college students and is a community activist

Jill Stephens is a community activist and a First Nations access co-ordinator at Coast Mountain College. She is seen here in her office at the Waap Galts’ap longhouse on the college’s Terrace campus. (Jake Wray/Terrace Standard)
Tyler Montague, 36, went missing from Terrace and has now been found deceased. The situation is not considered suspicious, RCMP say. (Photo courtesy Pauline Montague)

Missing Terrace man found deceased

Circumstances not suspicious, RCMP say

Tyler Montague, 36, went missing from Terrace and has now been found deceased. The situation is not considered suspicious, RCMP say. (Photo courtesy Pauline Montague)
Terrace City Hall

Council briefs: Northwest Regional Airport seeks parking lot funding

RCMP volunteers, deferred tax sale among items discussed on July 13

Terrace City Hall
Terrace RCMP taser pipe-wielding woman

Terrace RCMP taser pipe-wielding woman

Woman was attacking, chasing man

Terrace RCMP taser pipe-wielding woman
Artist Mike Dangeli sketches a figure on the Highway of Tears memorial totem pole he is carving under a tent in his back yard in Terrace on July 22. (Jake Wray/Terrace Standard)

Highway of Tears memorial totem pole to be raised on Kitsumkalum territory west of Terrace

Totem pole will stand overlooking the Skeena river, providing place for families to visit, remember

Artist Mike Dangeli sketches a figure on the Highway of Tears memorial totem pole he is carving under a tent in his back yard in Terrace on July 22. (Jake Wray/Terrace Standard)
These drugs, weapons and bills were seized by Terrace RCMP after arresting an impaired driver in Thornhill the night of Friday, July 17. (RCMP handout photo)

Drugs, cash, weapons seized after traffic stop in Thornhill

RCMP observed vehicle driving erratically after complaint from citizen

These drugs, weapons and bills were seized by Terrace RCMP after arresting an impaired driver in Thornhill the night of Friday, July 17. (RCMP handout photo)
This concept artwork from July 2020 shows the inland port planned for the former Skeena Cellulose mill site in Terrace. (Image courtesy Hatha Callis, Progressive Ventures Group)

Major train cargo facility planned on former Skeena Cellulose mill site in Terrace

The proposed development is now entering its public feedback phase, with open house planned July 29

This concept artwork from July 2020 shows the inland port planned for the former Skeena Cellulose mill site in Terrace. (Image courtesy Hatha Callis, Progressive Ventures Group)
Mel Bevan, Kitselas elder, is settling in to write and relax after a long illustrious career. He is seen here on April 11, 2018 at UNBC Terrace where he delivered a lecture series for an elder-in-residence program. (Rod Link photo)

Skeena Voices | Resting, reflecting, writing after long career

Kitselas elder Mel Bevan spent decades fighting for Indigenous rights and services

Mel Bevan, Kitselas elder, is settling in to write and relax after a long illustrious career. He is seen here on April 11, 2018 at UNBC Terrace where he delivered a lecture series for an elder-in-residence program. (Rod Link photo)
Skeena Voices | ‘You help where you can’

Skeena Voices | ‘You help where you can’

Barry English reflects on decades of volunteering and activism in Terrace area

Skeena Voices | ‘You help where you can’
NAV CANADA has temporarily suspended the night shift at its flight service station, which provides weather data and other support to pilots, at the Northwest Regional Airport Terrace-Kitimat which is seen here from the runway on June 22, 2020. (Jake Wray/Terrace Standard)

Four air ambulance flights out of Terrace delayed or cancelled

Pandemic precautions caused nighttime closure of service station providing weather data to pilots

NAV CANADA has temporarily suspended the night shift at its flight service station, which provides weather data and other support to pilots, at the Northwest Regional Airport Terrace-Kitimat which is seen here from the runway on June 22, 2020. (Jake Wray/Terrace Standard)
Quentin Guno, 12, has gone missing from Terrace. He was last seen on the Southside around 10 p.m. July 9 riding a mountain bike. (Photo courtesy Natasha Smith)

UPDATE: missing 12-year-old Terrace boy found safe

Was reported missing on Southside around 10 p.m. July 9

Quentin Guno, 12, has gone missing from Terrace. He was last seen on the Southside around 10 p.m. July 9 riding a mountain bike. (Photo courtesy Natasha Smith)
A grizzly bear and two cubs, like the bears seen in this file photo, were spotted by two people running on the trail to Gruchy’s Beach near Terrace July 8.(Ken Pugh Photo)

Mother grizzly bear with two cubs spotted on Gruchy’s Beach trail near Terrace

Conservation officers also warning public to stay away from Grizzlies on lower Kitimat River

A grizzly bear and two cubs, like the bears seen in this file photo, were spotted by two people running on the trail to Gruchy’s Beach near Terrace July 8.(Ken Pugh Photo)