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The city has been busy filling more potholes that usual this year, and spending more money to do so. In 2012 the city spent $107,257 on cold-patching potholes, in 2013 it spend $165,600, and in 2014 $294,337. “The cost of having spent $142,820 in just the first two months of 2015 raises concern that pothole repairs are on track to surpassing the cost of repairs in 2014, which was the highest in the last six years,” according to report submitted to council Monday. In addition, as more spent...

  Three hours after being introduced as the new coach of the Prince George Spruce Kings, Chad van Diemen was on the ice at the Coliseum. Van Diemen ran practice sessions Friday afternoon for the six teams of players participating in this year’s Prospects Camp. “(General manager) Mike (Hawes) had sent me a schedule for the camp,” van Diemen said Monday, after the camp was over, “and the rosters for the teams. “I knew some of the players from our work with them, and I recognized some of...

Kevin Parnell Kelowna Capital News Employees at a Kelowna-based air cargo business are in mourning after search and rescue crews located the bodies of two pilots operating a Carson Air cargo flight that crashed in the North Shore mountains shortly after taking off from Vancouver on Monday morning. Search and rescue crews located the bodies of the two pilots on Tuesday after an extensive search in an area known as Crown Mountain. The twin prop aircraft operated by Carson Air took off from...

Funding woes at UNBC have forced its Community Care Centre to stop taking on new clients. The following was posted on its Facebook page yesterday: To all community partners and referring agencies: Due to funding constraints of the University, the UNBC Community Care Centre will need to stop providing intakes at this time. Our counselling of current clients will continue until June 30th. We are saddened and discouraged by this information, but we are working hard to find funding...

Dr. Ronald Chapman Vice-President of Medicine, Northern Health Northern Health places a high importance on providing high quality services to residents of northern B.C., and that includes ophthalmology services. Recognizing that there is an aging population, and that the demand for ophthalmology services continues to increase, we’re working on solutions to improve services across the region. There have been a number of recent media reports about ophthalmology services and I’d like to...