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School may be out for students at UNBC as of Thursday morning. At 8 a.m. Monday, the school’s Faculty Association issued 72-hour strike notice. At a media conference Monday afternoon, association president Jacqueline Holler said the strike would be total. “We will be withdrawing all services at all the school’s campuses. It will be a full-scale walkout.” The association represents some 340 full- and part-time faculty members, senior lab instructors, librarians and...

VICTORIA – Hundreds of hunters, some wearing camouflage and blowing duck calls, gathered at the B.C. legislature Monday to protest the share of big-game hunting permits set aside for guide-outfitters and their out-of-province clients. About 300 hunters and supporters attended the rally, bringing petitions with thousands of names to present in the legislature. The largest petition called for a limit of 10 per cent share of moose and elk allocated for non-resident hunters, and 15 per cent for...

Both Alan Little and Glenn Roche were worried about dust in the Lakeland Mill prior to the April 23, 2012 explosion that killed them. “Nobody’s going to die on my shift,” Little, a supervisor at the mill, told Roche and fellow head rig operator Brian Primrose, when he ordered a shutdown for clean up in January of 2012 following two fires at Lakeland and an explosion and fire at Babine Forest Products in Burns Lake that killed two men. “Glenn and I were both concerned about the amount of...

One man is in custody following a report at the university yesterday. On Sunday March 1, at approximately 11:15 am, the Prince George RCMP responded to a report of a man student uttering threats at the University of Northern British Columbia campus in Prince George. Police attended and arrested a 54-year-old man in the library of the campus. The accused was held in custody until his first appearance in provincial court today. Alexander Herman Hobart, a Prince George resident, has been...