The rush to develop BC’s $6-billion North Coast Transmission Line risks charging down the same troubled path of poor oversight and cost over-runs faced by the Site C dam, critics warn, pointing to a new report. At the end of October, BC Hydro provided the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) with its Site C “lessons […]

Tseshaht First Nation members Leisa Hassall, 36, and Sylvia Dick, 38, shot their first Roosevelt elk this fall. Hassall dropped a four-by-four bull in the Comox Main area on Sept. 27 and Dick took down a massive seven-by-seven Imperial in the Taylor Arm area on Sept. 29. “When I harvest animals, I am always thanking

By Barb Brouwer, Contributor At the age of 27, Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski had become a seasoned world traveller. Following five years of planting trees in B.C., Kawatski was ready for new adventures. In 1978, she became the first female attendant stationed at the Bob Quinn Lake fire tower in northwestern B.C. In awe of the

A young man was hospitalized in Trail early Saturday after suffering a prolonged seizure linked to nitrous oxide use. Trail and Greater District RCMP say officers and emergency health services were called to a residence in the 1900 block of Second Avenue at around 2 a.m. on Nov. 15, where the man was in medical

SFU’s School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering at Surrey’s campus has created a heart monitoring system by combining 3D printing and artificial intelligence. The move could transform the way doctors measure and diagnose patients’ heart health, according to a university press release. The system features reusable dry 3D-printed electrodes that are embedded in a soft chest