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Ornamental street lights will soon be illuminating George Street from Third Avenue to Sixth Avenue downtown. City crews began installation of the lights on the 300 block of George Street on Tuesday.

School District 57 will see nearly $100,000 added to its expenses due to provincial government downloading. School board trustee Lyn Hall said the added expense will be felt when the 2011-12 budget is set.

Spurred on by personal connections at her workplace, Deanna Zutz of Windsor Plywood is helping to organize a relief effort for people displaced by the wildfire that swept Slave Lake, Alta.

The Keg Steakhouse and Bar restaurant chain is serving up $1 million in grants, and four local projects are competing for a prime cut of the cash.

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed a complaint against the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) by a former professor who alleged he was unjustly dismissed because of a mental disability.

With visions of John Backhouse being chased across the moors and highlands by Scottish hoteliers demanding "givus yer munae, ya squeefy Canadian scaffbag," many of the former mayor's friends had a puzzling email on their Tuesday morning computer scre

High water is having its way with Highway 16 West. The highway is reduced to single-lane alternating traffic at 12 kilometres east of Endako and 20 km west of Burns Lake due to flooding according to the Ministry of Transportation.

A B.C. Human Rights Tribunal member has dismissed a complaint against the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) by a former professor who alleged he was unjustly dismissed because of a mental disability. In February 2006, UNBC told Dr.

Could there be $1,000 rebates coming as in Ontario when the harmonized sales tax was introduced there? Perhaps the Christy Clark-led B.C.

A new rainy system is expected in the region today, plus more warm weather, adding a lot of new water to already swollen local creeks and minor rivers.