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A firefighter combats a wildfire near Smithers, where eased campfire restrictions following recent rainfall come with continued warnings for public caution amid persistent fire activity in the region. (BC Wildfire Service)

BC Wildfire Service relaxes campfire restrictions in northwest amid rainy conditions

While the campfire bans have been eased, officials continue to urge caution amid ongoing wildfires

by Viktor Elias

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Selwyn Romilly and his wife, Lorna. (Charis Romilly Turner/Contributed to Black Press Media)

Selwyn Romilly, B.C.’s first Black judge, dies at age 83

Romilly practiced law in Smithers and Prince Rupert before being called to the bench in 1974

by Alexander Vaz

The House of Ni’isjoohl Memorial Pole returned to Terrace on Sept. 24, symbolizing a historic homecoming. (Sailor First Class Erin Roberts, Canadian Armed Forces, via House of Ni’isjoohl/Nisg̱a’a Lisims Government)

PHOTOS: Stolen totem pole returns to Nisga’a after nearly a century in Scotland

Historic repatriation marks a significant milestone for the Nisga’a

by Viktor Elias

Delegates from the Nisga’a Nation arrive in anticipation at the National Museum of Scotland on August 28, 2023. From left to right: Apdii Lax̱ha (Andrew Robinson), Sim’oogit Duuk (Chief William Moore), Laax̱ Yee (Bobby Clark), Sim’oogit Laay̓ (Chief Bruce Haldane), Mmihlgum Maakskwhl G̱akw (Pamela Brown), Sim’oogit Ni’isjoohl (Chief Earl Stephens), Sigidimnaḵ’ Nox̱s Ts’aawit (Dr. Amy Parent), and Shawna Mackay. The delegation’s presence underscores the significance of the Ni’isjoohl Memorial Pole’s journey and the deep-rooted ties to their heritage. (Duncan McGlynn)

Nisga’a totem pole to return home after nearly a century in Scottish museum

A cherished Nisga’a totem pole is en route home, marking a significant moment of reconciliation

by Viktor Elias

Delegates from the Nisga’a Nation arrive in anticipation at the National Museum of Scotland on August 28, 2023. From left to right: Apdii Lax̱ha (Andrew Robinson), Sim’oogit Duuk (Chief William Moore), Laax̱ Yee (Bobby Clark), Sim’oogit Laay̓ (Chief Bruce Haldane), Mmihlgum Maakskwhl G̱akw (Pamela Brown), Sim’oogit Ni’isjoohl (Chief Earl Stephens), Sigidimnaḵ’ Nox̱s Ts’aawit (Dr. Amy Parent), and Shawna Mackay. The delegation’s presence underscores the significance of the Ni’isjoohl Memorial Pole’s journey and the deep-rooted ties to their heritage. (Duncan McGlynn)

It was in 2021 that a tugboat sank near Kitimat killing two mariners: 58-year-old tug captain Troy Pearson and 25-year-old crew member Charley Cragg. A third crew member survived when the tug Ingenika went down in a storm in February 2021 while towing a barge.

Judge approves $310K proposal for prevention programs in 2021 fatal tugboat crash

James Geoffrey Bates to pay $15K, while Wainwright Marine will pay the remaining $295K

by Lauren Collins

It was in 2021 that a tugboat sank near Kitimat killing two mariners: 58-year-old tug captain Troy Pearson and 25-year-old crew member Charley Cragg. A third crew member survived when the tug Ingenika went down in a storm in February 2021 while towing a barge.

A logging truck delivers timber to Skeena Sawmills in Terrace, in 2021, during better days before the company faced severe financial challenges. (Black Press Media file photo)

BREAKING: Skeena Sawmills in Terrace placed under receivership

B.C. Supreme Court appoints Alvarez & Marsal Canada as receiver amid escalating debts

by Viktor Elias

A logging truck delivers timber to Skeena Sawmills in Terrace, in 2021, during better days before the company faced severe financial challenges. (Black Press Media file photo)

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SAG- AFTRA actors rally outside the Paramount Pictures Studio in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Writers Guild board approves deal to end Hollywood strike

Taryn Stephenson stands outside her vandalized store. (Colleen Flanagan/The News)

VIDEO: Man vandalized B.C. business with smoke bombs; fundraiser launched

The retired BC Ferries vessel Queen of Sidney, top, that was in operation from 1960 to 2000, and another derelict vessel are seen moored on the Fraser River, in Mission, B.C., on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Canada slowly creating wreck inventory as it tackles derelict vessel issue

FILE - Former President Donald Trump pauses before ending his remarks at a rally in Summerville, S.C., Sept. 25, 2023. A New York judge ruled, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, that the former president and his company committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House. (AP Photo/Artie Walker Jr., File)

Trump defrauded banks while building real estate empire, judge rules

It was in 2021 that a tugboat sank near Kitimat killing two mariners: 58-year-old tug captain Troy Pearson and 25-year-old crew member Charley Cragg. A third crew member survived when the tug Ingenika went down in a storm in February 2021 while towing a barge.

Judge approves $310K proposal for prevention programs in 2021 fatal tugboat crash

James Geoffrey Bates to pay $15K, while Wainwright Marine will pay the remaining $295K

by Lauren Collins

It was in 2021 that a tugboat sank near Kitimat killing two mariners: 58-year-old tug captain Troy Pearson and 25-year-old crew member Charley Cragg. A third crew member survived when the tug Ingenika went down in a storm in February 2021 while towing a barge.

A fallen tree lays on top a car parked on Nowell Street near Chilliwack Central Road on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020 during a wind storm in Chilliwack. Another windstorm is forecast for B.C.’s South Coast beginning Sept. 24. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

Power outages, rising rivers expected as storm heads for B.C.’s South Coast

First fall storm set to begin Sunday on Vancouver Island, Monday in Metro Vancouver

by Black Press Media Staff

A fallen tree lays on top a car parked on Nowell Street near Chilliwack Central Road on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020 during a wind storm in Chilliwack. Another windstorm is forecast for B.C.’s South Coast beginning Sept. 24. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

The Coastal GasLink pipeline has been fined $340,000 by the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office for issues related to erosion and sediment control. Piping is seen on the top of a receiving platform which will be connected to the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline terminus at the LNG Canada export terminal under construction, in Kitimat, B.C., Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Coastal GasLink fined $340,000 for erosion, sediment control challenges

Work on northern B.C. pipeline has racked up $800,000 in fines since 2019

by The Canadian Press

The Coastal GasLink pipeline has been fined $340,000 by the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office for issues related to erosion and sediment control. Piping is seen on the top of a receiving platform which will be connected to the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline terminus at the LNG Canada export terminal under construction, in Kitimat, B.C., Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Work on the Haisla Bridge replacement project begins in this file photo from March, 2023. The District of Kitimat has postponed a Sept. 23 planned overnight closure of the new bridge to remove one of the old trusses to Sept. 30. (Associated Engineering photo)

Overnight closure of Kitimat’s Haisla Bridge delayed until Sept. 30

Next phase of truss removal still on schedule for Oct. 14

by Quinn Bender

Work on the Haisla Bridge replacement project begins in this file photo from March, 2023. The District of Kitimat has postponed a Sept. 23 planned overnight closure of the new bridge to remove one of the old trusses to Sept. 30. (Associated Engineering photo)

Gladys Radek leads a determined group of protesters along Highway 16, near Eby Street in Terrace, amplifying the call for justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. (Viktor Elias/Terrace Standard)

Terrace protesters demand Manitoba search landfill for Indigenous remains

Marchers nationwide join the call, spotlighting the broader issue of MMIWG

by Viktor Elias

Gladys Radek leads a determined group of protesters along Highway 16, near Eby Street in Terrace, amplifying the call for justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. (Viktor Elias/Terrace Standard)

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Resident greets unexpected guests

Kitimat RCMP report for Sept. 2 to Sept. 13

by Rod Link

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Prince George hospitality workers are hopeful their threats of a strike will have the same result as union workers at the Horizon North Crossroads Lodge in Kitimat, pictured, where strike action was narrowly averted earlier this year. (Horizon North photo)

Hospitality workers vote for strike in PG camp

Union hopeful for Kitimat-like outcome

by Quinn Bender

Prince George hospitality workers are hopeful their threats of a strike will have the same result as union workers at the Horizon North Crossroads Lodge in Kitimat, pictured, where strike action was narrowly averted earlier this year. (Horizon North photo)

Then Abbotsford Police Chief Bob Rich speaks in Abbotsford, B.C. in 2017. B.C. Premier David Eby has appointed Rich to lead an independent review of how someone with Blair Donnelly’s history of violence could receive unsupervised day parole from a psychiatric facility. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Former Kitimatian charged in Vancouver Chinatown stabbings

Blair Evan Donnelly was on day release from a psychiatric facility at the time of the incidents

by Quinn Bender

Then Abbotsford Police Chief Bob Rich speaks in Abbotsford, B.C. in 2017. B.C. Premier David Eby has appointed Rich to lead an independent review of how someone with Blair Donnelly’s history of violence could receive unsupervised day parole from a psychiatric facility. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

The scene from a 2020 Kitimat Landfill fundraising campaign from recyclables for local groups and organizations. The district is preparing to amend the bylaw governing all curbside collection and landfill operations.. (File photo)

District prepares for overhaul of landfill, waste system

Council orders public awareness blitz ahead of bylaw adoption

by Quinn Bender

The scene from a 2020 Kitimat Landfill fundraising campaign from recyclables for local groups and organizations. The district is preparing to amend the bylaw governing all curbside collection and landfill operations.. (File photo)

The Four Rivers Co-operative’s Fuel Good Day will be held on Sept. 19 across 12 of its gas bars in northern B.C. (File photo)

Four Rivers Co-op’s Fuel Good Day fundraiser back on Sept. 19

8 local organizations in northern B.C. to benefit from fundraiser

by Black Press Media Staff

The Four Rivers Co-operative’s Fuel Good Day will be held on Sept. 19 across 12 of its gas bars in northern B.C. (File photo)

Pierre Poilievre speaks in Terrace in a bid to shift the Skeena-Bulkley Valley riding, historically an NDP stronghold. (Seth Forward/Northern View)

Federal Conservative leader rallies support in northwest B.C.

Pierre Poilievre visited Smithers and Terrace in campaign-style stops Sept. 14

by Seth Forward, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Pierre Poilievre speaks in Terrace in a bid to shift the Skeena-Bulkley Valley riding, historically an NDP stronghold. (Seth Forward/Northern View)

Canfor has announced it will demolish its old mill in Houston and build a new one. (File photo)

Canfor to build new mill in Houston

Announcement ends months of uncertainty for the community

by Rod Link

Canfor has announced it will demolish its old mill in Houston and build a new one. (File photo)

WSG Energy Services has purchased B.C.’s Servco Industrial Contractors (SIC). The deal encompasses SIC’s substantial employee base of over 260 personnel in the Kitimat area. Left to right, Julien Lafleche, president and CEO of Servco Canada; Brad Mason,principal and founding partner of servco Canada; Judy-Lynn Mason, CFO Servco Canada; Andy Burrell, Group CEO WSG Energy Services; John Gordon,CEO and founding partner Servco Industrial Contractors. Submitted photo

WSG Energy Services Acquires B.C.’s Servco Industrial Contractors

Deal will cover more than 260 SIC employees in the Kitimat area

by Quinn Bender

WSG Energy Services has purchased B.C.’s Servco Industrial Contractors (SIC). The deal encompasses SIC’s substantial employee base of over 260 personnel in the Kitimat area. Left to right, Julien Lafleche, president and CEO of Servco Canada; Brad Mason,principal and founding partner of servco Canada; Judy-Lynn Mason, CFO Servco Canada; Andy Burrell, Group CEO WSG Energy Services; John Gordon,CEO and founding partner Servco Industrial Contractors. Submitted photo

Dr. Andrew Forrest, executive chairman of Fortescue Futures Industries with Lheidli T’enneh First Nation Chief Dolleen Logan in Prince George on Sept. 13, 2023. Forrest was in B.C. to announce his company's green hydrogen facility Project Coyote to be set up in Prince George on Lheidli T’enneh territory. (Omineca Express photo)

Australian mining tycoon Andrew Forrest announces $2 billion green hydrogen project in northern B.C.

Fortescue’s Project Coyote in Prince George is estimated to produce 140,000 tonnes of ‘green’ hydrogen

by Binny Paul

Dr. Andrew Forrest, executive chairman of Fortescue Futures Industries with Lheidli T’enneh First Nation Chief Dolleen Logan in Prince George on Sept. 13, 2023. Forrest was in B.C. to announce his company's green hydrogen facility Project Coyote to be set up in Prince George on Lheidli T’enneh territory. (Omineca Express photo)

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