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A Fort St. James man has been fined $1,000 for flying a drone while out on a hunting expedition. Paul James Hesse was issued the penalty on November 9 in Fort St. James Provincial Court.

Bio-based plastics, most of them compostable to some degree, are proliferating across Canada. Yet millions of compostable cups, containers and bags will probably still end up in landfills. It’s a crisis driven, in part, by bad communication.

Transport Canada is in the ­process of reviewing 1,000-plus reports of B.C. Ferries passengers unwilling to leave vehicles on enclosed car decks, as is required by regulations.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced Canadians to endure a series of different restrictions for more than eight months.

Sometime early next year, or possibly even before Christmas, after former B.C. government bureaucrat Peter Milburn completes an independent review of the Site C hydroelectric dam project, British Columbians should brace for sticker-price shock.

A prominent Canadian forecaster says the country's residents could experience everything from winter wonderlands to spring-like spells in the months ahead.

The official opening of the Carrier Sekani Family Services Sk'ai Zeh Yah Youth Centre took place Nov.

As the cold sets in, hundreds of ducks are still at Cottonwood Island Park and so are the two volunteers who feed them daily to help keep the ducks alive during the harsh winter months when food is in short supply.

Expect rain and wind today

From Prince George provincial court: - Harvey Jerome Chingee (born 1986) was sentenced to two years probation, issued a lifetime firearms prohibition, ordered to provide a DNA sample and assessed $300 in victim surcharges for two counts of assault wi