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Prince Rupert’s Cruise Ship Task Force showed up en masse Monday evening to give City Council a mid-season update.

The employment picture continues to improve with a regional jobless rate of 7 per cent in June compared to 8 per cent in May.

BC Ferries is offering refunds for assured-loading passes that have expired.

Prince Rupert's new Coast Guard vessel, the Cape Dauphin, was on display at the Coast Guard station today and those who work with the ship outlined the role it will play in search and rescue on the North Coast.

The City of Prince Rupert will be on the hook to fund the remaining $2.7 million needed to complete the final phase of the Hays Creek Trunk Sewer line replacement.

TWO NORTHWEST businesses are sharing in an $8 million taxpayer-financed payout announced by the provincial government.

Federal NDP leader Jack Layton has announced he is taking an indefinite medical leave from the leadership of the party, after being diagnosed with a second type of cancer.

Five new provincial court judges will help B.C.'s backlogged court system, but the system is still falling behind, says NDP justice critic Leonard Krog.

On Thursday afternoon two judges from the provincial Communities in Bloom competition were in town to look at the efforts undertaken by the local committee, and both Wendy Maurer and Georgia Kliever say they were impressed with what they saw.

Local MLA Gary Coons and provincial NDP leader, Adrian Dix, sent another letter to the office of the Premier regarding the BC Ferries pension controversy. This time they were demanding that Christy Clark make public all the documents regarding the decision by the board of directors to give David Hahn a supplementary pension of over $200,000. They also want the details of the retirement agreements for two other BC Ferries board members.