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Ken LePage and his Grade 5/6 class run the recycling program at Marie Sharpe Elementary School.

Bears are leaving their dens in search of the nearest food source and B.C. residents are urged to be bear aware to help reduce bear-human conflicts.

The Ministry of Social Development is mailing income assistance cheques one week early this month, in case Canada Post experiences a work disruption.

Due to the Victoria Day long weekend, the classified and display ad deadline will be today at 5 p.m.

More B.C. children will have access to fresh, B.C.-grown fruit and vegetable snacks in the classroom due to a $3-million expansion of the BC School Fruit and Vegetable Nutritional program, Premier Christy Clark announced Tuesday.

Two males who dined and dashed after enjoying a meal Tuesday morning at Denny’s Restaurant managed to evade the law but not before one was struck by a car on Oliver Street while fleeing.

Forty-four of the 120 B.C. wildland firefighters the province has sent to northern Alberta this week came from the Cariboo Fire Centre.

On the first long weekend of the summer, the RCMP will be keeping a watchful eye on highway travellers.