PG Daily News

PRINCE GEORGE Late third period goals from both Kilian McGregor-Bennett and Nick Rhéaume gave the Spruce Kings a 3-1 victory on 2000’s night at the Rolling Mix Concrete Arena. 1st PERIOD: WEN: On a Wenatchee power-play, Ean Somoza’s point shot was initially blocked, but the puck found the stick of Landen Parker and he fired it off a body and top corner on Aaron Trotter to give the Wild a 1-0 #SpruceKings

The Prince George Cougars (18-24-2-1) winless streak was extended to four games (0-3-1-0) after a 4-1 loss to the visiting Vancouver Giants (17-23-2-0) at the CN Centre on Friday night. The win by Vancouver shrunk the gap between the two teams to three points. Prince George still sits third in the B.C. Division, but the Giants still have three games in hand. #Cougars

Eliot Grondin and Meryeta O’Dine will both be going home with two medals in their pockets after winning bronze in a dramatic final of the first ever Olympic mixed team snowboard cross event. That follows the silver (Grondin) and bronze (O’Dine) medals they won in their individual snowboard cross events in recent days at Beijing 2022. #Olympics

COVID-19: B.C. sees 1,245 new cases; 143 in Northern Health region

Editor: Looking ahead to the 2021 season, British Columbia’s public fishery is facing a crisis. Conservatives have met with members of B.C.’s public fishery, who have expressed grave concerns that if political considerations continue to outweigh sound science, the impact on the angling industry, and the family livelihoods it sustains, will be devastating. #BobZimmer

Police have caught one of the suspects in a series of break and enters that occurred in downtown Prince George this past week. Around 8:00 p.m. on February 11, a general duty officer of the Prince George RCMP was on patrol near the 800 block of Canada Games Way. He noticed a man in clothing similar to that worn by a suspect on surveillance footage from several recent break-and-enters. #RCMP

Northern Health is urging residents not to let their guard down on COVID-19 prevention, heading into the Family Day weekend, and beyond. The NH region continues to see a surge in COVID-19 activity, related hospitalizations, and an increase in deaths related to COVID-19.

Northern Health Medical Health Officers have declared a COVID-19 outbreak at the Pretium Resources Brucejack Mine north of Stewart after finding evidence of COVID-19 transmission among employees and contractors at the underground gold mine. To date, at least 22 individuals have tested positive for COVID-19 in association with this outbreak

Update: see the list as from the BC Hydro page. Those times would be Coast time, so add on one hour later - that is, this is as of 3:08pm MST not 2:08pm (MST ...Mountain Standard Time). ^mj Power out where you are? We have a power outage in Chetwynd. Peace FM carries on, on Radio Player Canada if you can't get it over the FM dial. Here is the link from BC Hydro. Somehow it didn't post earlier. It was showing earlier as two outages in Chetwynd and Hudson's Hope. ^mj https://www.bchydro.com/power-outages/app/outage-list.html

Look up. Look way, way up. That’s what Malhar Kendurkar does every day. Well, not exactly. He looks into his computer screen. His computer looks at telescopes in places like Spain or Chile. And those telescopes look up way, way up. To the stars. Or, more accurately, stars that have exploded. Kendurkar searches the night skies in a quest to find supernovas. @malharkendurkar

Two people were arrested early New Year's Day following a shooting a Cluculz Lake. On January 1, 2021 shortly after 4:30 a.m., Vanderhoof RCMP received a report of the discharge of a firearm at a Cluculz Lake home. Front line officers responded to the area and contained the property situated in the 5700-block of Meier Frontage Road.

BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam Unmuzzled Last week my column was, in hindsight, kind of dark and dismal. A real emotional downer, as I went from a column on celestial star gazing to navel gazing, with my look back at how terrible my 2020 was -- not thinking that most readers were probably knee deep in their own problems.Sorry about that.

The College of New Caledonia ‘s (CNC) blueprint for the future is beginning to take form as its new strategic plan enters the next phase of development. In June 2020, CNC launched a public engagement process for its next five-year strategic plan.

What happens when heightened anxiety from a deadly surge in new coronavirus infections combines with general pandemic fatigue and fury over Canadian politicians seeking heat in southern climes as they sacrifice their own plans? New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds a majority in this country would close the border to quell discretionary travel. #AngusReid

I want to give a well deserved shout out to the McKenzie family and volunteers down at The Twisted Cork today. For over a decade they have been opening their d...oors on Christmas Day to those in need, and serving up amazing complimentary hot turkey dinners with all the fixings, and fresh baked treats for dessert! Thank you for giving back to the community and spreading holiday cheer in the true spirit of Christmas!

The North’s first baby of 2021 was born in Prince George, and it’s a boy. Baby Kace was born at the University Hospital of Northern BC on January 1 at 4:11 a.m. to Jessica Penner and Kenneth Wray, of Quesnel. Kace weighed in at seven pounds, 11 ounces, and is welcomed to the world by his half-siblings Jacob and Nathan. Fort St. John’s New Year’s baby is a boy! #NorthernHealth