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School passes preliminary budget

Cuts to special education services were the main concern voiced by audience members during the Coast Mountains School District's special budget meeting June 22.
Vancouver riot review gets underway

Vancouver riot review gets underway

Former Vancouver Olympic boss John Furlong and former Nova Scotia deputy attorney general Doug Keefe have been appointed co-chairs of a review into the June 15 Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver.

PNG rates dropping

THERE’S GOOD news for residential customers of Pacific Northern Gas (PNG) – rates are going down.
Medical simulator provides realistic training

Medical simulator provides realistic training

A new training simulation centre is set to help medical students and nursing students to practise their life saving skills in emergency situations and learn to work together as a team.
UPDATED: Machinists on strike for first time

UPDATED: Machinists on strike for first time

SEVEN MACHINISTS at Finning here are on strike after negotiations for a new contract between the union and company didn't pan out last week.
MLA Pat Pimm quits caucus after arrest

MLA Pat Pimm quits caucus after arrest

Peace River North MLA Pat Pimm has resigned as a parliamentary secretary for natural gas development and quit the B.C. Liberal caucus after being arrested in a domestic dispute at his home Sunday.

Seniors move into new homes

The first 12 tenants moved into the completed seniors rental housing units on the 4600 block of Davis Ave. June 1, and the remaining residents will move into the units July 1.

Council pays more taxes this year

Most of the Terrace city councillors saw an increase in their property taxes this year, unlike last year where the majority of their property taxes decreased.
40 roads washed out in northeast B.C.

40 roads washed out in northeast B.C.

It will take weeks to repair multiple road and highway washouts caused by a once-in-40-years rainstorm in northeast B.C.

Two escape blaze safely

A FIRE ignited a residence along Queensway Drive in the late evening of June 24, causing police to block off the road to traffic from the Bold Salvage building down to just west of Mark Road.