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Only a few will get to be carriers when the 2015 Canada Winter Games torch relay takes to the city's streets Friday, but it will still take thousands to create the celebratory atmosphere.

Sport B.C. has named Ariadne Holness de Hiller volunteer of the year during the 18th annual Presidents' Awards.

During the Canada Winter Games there's a Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) set up at the hospital to offer support to staff and doctors.

Workers prepare the centre stage in Winter Games Plaza Wednesday afternoon.

Alyssa Tobin, assistant archivist at Exploration Place, puts together the American Mastodon display that is part of The Ice Age Mammals exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Nature that is being installed at the Exploration Place Museum and Science Cen

An eagle's nest fell out of a tree in Cottonwood Island Park and has landed on one of the trails.

Members of the public are being asked to help document moose winter tick infestations by completing and submitting an online survey before April 30. The survey will help B.C.

Together since high school, more than half of Rob and Barb Wiebe's life as a couple has been coloured by the specter of cancer.

2015 Canada Winter Games CEO Stuart Ballantyne hopes security will be the most uneventful aspect of the two-week sporting extravaganza.