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One person is dead after a three vehicle crash on Highway 16 east of New Hazelton Saturday morning. Police were called to the crash near Mug Flat Creek, approximately 15 kilometres east of New Hazelton, shortly after 9 a.m.

The Canadian environmental assessment process is flawed, according to a B.C. opposition MP who points to the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline as his prime exhibit.

Local government leaders are pleased with Thursday's call from the Transportation Safety Board for stronger safety measures when shipping crude oil by rail in the wake of last summer's Lac Mgantic disaster.

Theatre North West is looking for driftwood to enhance their next production, Where the Blood Mixes. The ideal piece is 10 to 12 feet long with the root bundle in place.

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal will hear a complaint alleging health care providers are discriminating against aboriginal residents in the Hazelton area by failing to provide an equitable level of service at the community's hospital. The B.C.

Permits for $116.3 million worth of construction were taken out over 2013 in Prince George, according to a report from city hall. Those numbers were the fourth highest seen in the past decade.

Nobody wants to be poor, nobody wants to be sick, and nobody wants to be addicted to drugs, said Councilor Albert Koehler, during the Livin' in the VLA event Friday afternoon.

A B.C. Supreme Court Justice has dismissed a Cluculz Lake cabin owner's lawsuit against the company hired to install a septic system in part because he dismantled the system before it was ever tested.

This week provided a rare opportunity for area resident with accessibility issues to bring their concerns to those who can actually affect some sort of change. "Quite often we don't really get a chance to get out beyond the Lower Mainland.

Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Nathan Cullen is pleased the BC Coroners Service's will investigate the fatal 2012 explosion at Babine Forest Products, but he's concerned that the agency may not be able to accomplish all that it hopes to achieve.