Local News

5/17/2013

Pineridge Elementary School Raises $800 Towards Acropolis Manor Dental Chair

Pineridge Elementary school in Prince Rupert is paying it forward, by raising money for the North Coast Health Improvement Society, with a cultural dinner and dance. Thursday night the school raised $800 dollars to donate to the Acropolis Manor to purchase new medical equipment for senior residents. With dance, Aboriginal ... Read more
5/16/2013

Nass Valley RCMP Encourage Positive Youth Behavior

  RCMP in the Nass Valley has launched a new program that hopes to forge better relationships between the youth and police forces in the area. The positive ticket program was kicked off this week. This program allows officers to reward youth in the community with 'positive tickets'- in the ... Read more
5/16/2013

Coastal First Nations Express Concerns About BG Groups LNG Proposal

The Coastal First Nations have expressed their concerns of BG Groups plans to use fossil fuels in stead of electricity, for the proposed L-N-G Plant on Ridley Island. This comes after the release of a project description, which provided details of BG Groups plans to build a facility on the ... Read more
5/16/2013

Gitga'at Order Enbridge Crew To Leave Territory

   Members of the Gitga'at Nation say they have evicted a Northern Gateway Pipelines crew from their territory on the north coast as it tried to conduct oil spill response surveys.     The First Nation at Hartley Bay says the crew showed up uninvited to carry out work on a ... Read more
5/16/2013

Police Watchdog Investigates Complaints Against Northern BC RCMP

The Commission for Public Complaints Against the R-C-M-P has begun an investigation of the conduct of police officers in Northern B-C. The investigation comes in the wake of a report released by Human Rights Watch, which contained allegations of police threats, torture and sexual assault of aboriginal girls and women. ... Read more