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The Skeena BioEnergy pellet plant is producing a value-added product (File photo)

City supports bid to use geothermal energy

Hot air would replace natural gas to dry fibre for pellets

The Skeena BioEnergy pellet plant is producing a value-added product (File photo)
Northwest Regional Airport employees prepare to unload an Air Canada Airbus A230 on June 30, 2021. (Ben Bogstie/Terrace Standard)

Passenger count climbs at airport

August highest monthly count so far this year

Northwest Regional Airport employees prepare to unload an Air Canada Airbus A230 on June 30, 2021. (Ben Bogstie/Terrace Standard)
A man has been struck by a train in Terrace. He was taken to hospital. (Black Press file)

Man struck by train in Terrace CN railyard

Taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries

A man has been struck by a train in Terrace. He was taken to hospital. (Black Press file)
Illustration of what the new Mills Memorial Hospital might look like when viewed from the southeast corner of the property. (Image courtesy Northern Health)

Mills Memorial builder brings in vaccination requirement

But there are grounds for exemptions

Illustration of what the new Mills Memorial Hospital might look like when viewed from the southeast corner of the property. (Image courtesy Northern Health)
An innovative project to grow forage for moose is underway in the region. (Photo courtesy Forest Enhancement Society of B.C.)

Project underway to increase moose forage

Taking place in an area east of Babine Mountains

An innovative project to grow forage for moose is underway in the region. (Photo courtesy Forest Enhancement Society of B.C.)
Elective orthopedic surgery could be coming to the new Mills Memorial Hospital in Terrace, which is to be designated the northwest’s hub hospital for Level III trauma care. (Pixabay photo)

New Mills in Terrace could offer elective orthopedic surgery

Hospital already slated to be a hub for regional trauma care

Elective orthopedic surgery could be coming to the new Mills Memorial Hospital in Terrace, which is to be designated the northwest’s hub hospital for Level III trauma care. (Pixabay photo)
Electric vehicle charging station at the Savory Rest Stop east of Burns Lake. (Plugshare.com photo)

Northwest B.C. electric vehicle fast chargers out of service

Replacement parts proving difficult to acquire due to supply chain disruptions

Electric vehicle charging station at the Savory Rest Stop east of Burns Lake. (Plugshare.com photo)
The City of Terrace has hired a key official in making a three-year financial commitment of just under $456,000 in a bid to deal with mental health, addictions and poverty most publicly noticeable with open drug use, ongoing crime and public disorder in the downtown core. (Black Press Media file photo)

City of Terrace hires person to deal with social problems

Three-year commitment to cost $456,000

The City of Terrace has hired a key official in making a three-year financial commitment of just under $456,000 in a bid to deal with mental health, addictions and poverty most publicly noticeable with open drug use, ongoing crime and public disorder in the downtown core. (Black Press Media file photo)
City of Terrace intends to resume its annual homeless count in April after a hiatus last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Binny Paul photo/ Terrace Standard)

City of Terrace gets provincial homelessness grant

Will be used for portable toilets and to hire city staffer

City of Terrace intends to resume its annual homeless count in April after a hiatus last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Binny Paul photo/ Terrace Standard)
Construction crews work on the site of the new Mills Memorial Hospital on July 9, 2021. (Ben Bogstie/Terrace Standard)

Terrace property owners funding part of hospital project to benefit from low interest rate

Expected rate of 2.65 per cent is less than the rate of other hospital district borrowings

Construction crews work on the site of the new Mills Memorial Hospital on July 9, 2021. (Ben Bogstie/Terrace Standard)
The City of Terrace will be facing higher policing costs after a collective agreement was signed between RCMP officers and the federal government, increasing pay by an average 24 per cent. (Black Press Media file photo)

City of Terrace taxpayers face increased RCMP costs

Collective agreement provides substantial wage hikes

The City of Terrace will be facing higher policing costs after a collective agreement was signed between RCMP officers and the federal government, increasing pay by an average 24 per cent. (Black Press Media file photo)
FILE – A voting package for the 2018 electoral reform referendum. Vote-by-mail packages for the 2020 provincial election will look similar, according to information provided by Elections BC. (Katya Slepian - Black Press Media)

How to vote on or before Sept. 20

Mail-in ballots are expected to be taken up by millions of voters

FILE – A voting package for the 2018 electoral reform referendum. Vote-by-mail packages for the 2020 provincial election will look similar, according to information provided by Elections BC. (Katya Slepian - Black Press Media)
A CF-18 of the Royal Canadian Air Force is flying over northwestern B.C. today. (Royal Canadian Air Force photo)

CF-18 flying over northwestern B.C. today

Part of a salute to health care and other front line workers

A CF-18 of the Royal Canadian Air Force is flying over northwestern B.C. today. (Royal Canadian Air Force photo)
Artist’s illustration of planned new vehicle inspection station in Thornhill. (Province of B.C. illustration)

VIDEO: Thornhill vehicle inspection station plans advance

It’ll be built beside Hwy16 in Thornhill

Artist’s illustration of planned new vehicle inspection station in Thornhill. (Province of B.C. illustration)
The city needs to have its residents reduce the amount of forbidden material being put into the blue recycling bins. (Terrace Standard photo)

City of Terrace clamping down on bad residential recyclers

Contamination rate in excess of what’s permitted

The city needs to have its residents reduce the amount of forbidden material being put into the blue recycling bins. (Terrace Standard photo)
Coast Mountain College president Justin Kohlman, in the middle and flanked by college board vice chair David Try and college board chair Nicole Halbauer is off to a job in Alberta. (Coast Mountain College Photo)

Coast Mountain College president leaving Terrace

Justin Kohlman is off to Alberta

Coast Mountain College president Justin Kohlman, in the middle and flanked by college board vice chair David Try and college board chair Nicole Halbauer is off to a job in Alberta. (Coast Mountain College Photo)
Brolly Square in Terrace at the corner of Lakelse Ave. and Emerson St. on July 3, 2020. (Black Press Media file photo)

Imperial Oil still hopes to sell former gas station site in Terrace

But first wants clearance from environment ministry

Brolly Square in Terrace at the corner of Lakelse Ave. and Emerson St. on July 3, 2020. (Black Press Media file photo)
Unifor Local 2301 members picketing outside of the Rio Tinto smelter in Kitimat BC on July 26. (Black Press Media file photo)

Kitimat council urges Rio Tinto and union to return to bargaining

City of Terrace, MP Taylor Bachrach have also signed letter

Unifor Local 2301 members picketing outside of the Rio Tinto smelter in Kitimat BC on July 26. (Black Press Media file photo)
Mayor Carol Leclerc greeting RCMP Inspector Jayson Lucash when he first arrived as the detachment commander in Nov. 2018. He’s now transferred to Maple Ridge. (File photo)

Former Terrace RCMP inspector now in Maple Ridge

Jayson Lucash transferred out of Terrace in July

Mayor Carol Leclerc greeting RCMP Inspector Jayson Lucash when he first arrived as the detachment commander in Nov. 2018. He’s now transferred to Maple Ridge. (File photo)
The park and ride near the Hwy16/Hwy37 roundabout just east of Terrace is to get an electric vehicle charging station similar to this one at the Boulder Creek rest stop just west of Kitwanga. (Contributed)

High speed electric vehicle charger coming to Terrace

Installation set for park and ride near Skeena Landing

The park and ride near the Hwy16/Hwy37 roundabout just east of Terrace is to get an electric vehicle charging station similar to this one at the Boulder Creek rest stop just west of Kitwanga. (Contributed)