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District 57 (All closed by the school board due to declining enrolment) 2001/02 Mountain View elementary, Seymour elementary, Hart Highway elementary, North Nechako elementary, Haldi Road elementary, Gladstone elementary, Blackburn junior secondary.

If the results from Thursday's two byelections are a sign of things to come, the next general provincial election is shaping up to be quite the fight in University of Northern British Columbia political science professor Jason Morris's opinion.

B.C. public school teachers voted 73 per cent in favour of enforcing a resistance strategy in opposition to Bill 22 legislation that ended their strike action a month ago. A total of 21,625 teachers agreed with the B.C.

The union representing workers at the Endako molybdenum mine has failed to convince the Labour Relations Board (LRB) to to extend the time limit on revival of a decertification campaign.

A Prince George man was sentenced to 270 days in jail and issued a 10-year driving prohibition for three counts of driving while disqualified under the Criminal Code.

The Roman Forum was not built in a day, and it will no doubt take a year or two before Northern Health has its staff learning centre.

B.C. patients will soon no longer have to pay for cataract lenses. Starting June 4, the province will pick up the tab for non-standardized (foldable) lenses, a cost now billed to patients.

Northwest B.C. MP Nathan Cullen is the New Democratic Party's new opposition House Leader.

Charges have been stayed against four men allegedly involved in an home invasion late last year. The move was made Wednesday in B.C.

A northern resident will get a Governor General's Medal of Bravery today in Ottawa.