News

Drums were beating and First Nations song filled the air as participants in the 2011 Walk4Justice left Prince Rupert on Thursday afternoon, taking the first steps in a walk that will take them all the way from the Pacific Ocean to Parliament in Ottawa.

Thieves exploit 'outdated' rule on keeping insurance papers in vehicle

The Northwest Fire Centre was kept busy last week with a fire near the Yukon border.

On June 6 the Prince Rupert Port Authority released its traffic statistics for May 2011, and the numbers show year-over-year growth in almost every facet of port operations.

French poet, journalist and novelist Anatold France once said, “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is part of ourselves…”

During the week from May 23rd to May 29th, Queen Charlotte RCMP responded to 20 calls for service. Some of these were:

The national strike by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is now under way and the union is using rolling work stoppages in major cities instead of a nation wide strike that would cause Canada Post to grind to a halt.

The dilapidated condition of the hospital in the Village of Queen Charlotte became the subject of debate in the provincial Legislature after local MLA Gary Coons and NDP health critic Mike Farnsworth brought up facility’s problems during question period last week.