Opinion

Every so often, I forget that I've acquired a new song through iTunes and get a pleasant surprise when it pops up on my playlist. Recently, that song was Milky Chance's Down by the River.

After travelling for 10 years on an incredible six billion kilometre journey, humanity's marvellous little lander performed most of its assigned tasks before drifting off to sleep in the shadow of an unfortunately situated cliff on the conglomeration

I write these columns on Friday, so I do not have any knowledge of how the election turned out this past weekend. If I did, I would have started with congratulations to Mayor _________ and councillors ______________.

BC Ferries has been in the news a lot these days (not in a good way) and I thought that as a former Islander, I would take a little time to address my experiences with the beleaguered, over-priced water taxi.

VICTORIA -- Since winning the last election on a promise to make the province debt-free, the B.C. Liberals have balanced the budget for program spending and slowed the rate of growth of borrowing for capital projects.

When news got out that US President Barack Obama and China's President Xi Jinping had reached an agreement on climate change, the American blogosphere lit up with negative comments.

Prince George has a new mayor and some new people on council and the School District 57 school board. It seems like a very different group of people who will be around those tables, making important decisions on behalf of the community.

Great job at the polls Saturday, Prince George. For starters, you turned out in record numbers. A total of 19,710 voters cast a ballot, shattering the previous record from 2005, when 17,621 residents voted. That's an incredible 2,089 more voters.

On October 24 I became the owner of a brand new 2015 Toyota Tacoma. On Sunday Oct. 26 my husband and I had taken a trip to PG for some shopping. Our first stop was at the Walmart.

I am a student nurse currently completing an internship at the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS). Work at the society this month has included a large amount of raising radon awareness, because it is radon "take action" month.