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My little boy will grow up to be a Black man — and I'm afraid
Raising a racialized child in Canada means teaching them about their complex place in the world, says Audrey McKinnon, but that burden needs to be taken on by parents of non-racialized children as well.
One of the last fluent Dakelh speakers dies, taking 'a whole dictionary with her'
Just shy of 98 years old, Mary Gouchie took any opportunity she could to teach a new word in the Lheidli dialect of Dakelh to anyone who was willing to learn.
Dust-up over roaming cattle in northern B.C. spurs call for changes to the law
Good fences make good neighbours, but northern B.C. residents say the rules around who pays for those fences are outdated.
Prince Rupert boil water advisory continues indefinitely
The 12,000 residents of Prince Rupert are nearing the end of their third week without clean drinking water and there's no end in sight for the boil water advisory imposed on the north coast community.
'Have a heart,' Terrace mother pleads with unknown driver who killed her son in crash
It's been over a month since Cameron Kerr's death, and his family is certain there are witnesses who know more and can help bring the driver to justice.
First Christmas without Greyhound puts nervous northern B.C. driver back on the road
Former Greyhound passenger will drive nearly 600 kilometres in winter conditions to get home for the holidays, because she says the interim bus service put in place by the province doesn't meet her needs.
Northern Health hopes new recruitment efforts will finally curb long-term nursing shortage
Months ago, B.C. Auditor General Carol Bellringer found hundreds of thousands of patients in Northern B.C. at risk because of a lack of nurses in the region. Despite the finding, Northern Health says there hasn't been much growth since then.
Warm start to winter plus plentiful food keeps Prince George-area bears from deep sleep
The Northern Bear Awareness Society says unseasonably warm weather and residential waste availability is affecting bears' winter sleep habits.
River otters fatten up on bite-sized, at-risk sturgeon
The Vanderhoof Nechako White Sturgeon Recovery Initiative is releasing larger sturgeon to avoid numerous other predators, but the larger sturgeon are now the perfect-sized meal for local river otters.
Police question 7 people potentially linked to fatal hit and run
Thirty-year-old Cameron Kerr was fatally struck by a Ford F350 early Sunday morning on Highway 16, leading to a police investigation that now includes seven people.