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Underneath all the sport competitions, music concerts, pin trading and poutine there were some large meetings behind closed doors held over the past two weeks between government cabinet ministers at the Canada Winter Games.

After a 34-year cross-Canada career, North District RCMP Chief Superintendent Rod Booth is retiring at the end of March. Booth has been a member of the RCMP since 1981.

College of New Caledonia students will now be expected to pay $533 for previously free high school upgrade courses. This comes after the provincial government announced in December that it would no longer subsidize courses for graduated adults.

University of Northern British Columbia officials remained hopeful Friday a contract will be reached with the university's faculty association without a strike.

The Governor General will help close out the Canada Winter Games. David Johnston will attend the final day of competition on March 1, to watch the men's gold-medal hockey game and present the final prize to the winning team.

A woman has been sentenced to a further 90 days in jail for selling drugs out of a motel room.

At the heart of the Canada Winter Games Athletes Village, competitors loll on couches or bean bags, some listening to music but most deep into video games on one of the 65-inch TV screens.

The results from a review of the Independent Investigations Office have fallen short of what the sister of Greg Matters had hoped for.

A Prince George man was sentenced Wednesday to an intermittent 90 days in jail and two years probation for possession of child pornography.

Opposition MLAs are accusing the government of refusing to issue notes from meetings the Transportation Minister said he had with First Nations leaders along the Highway of Tears because they contradict his claim there is no support for public transp