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Insurgents targeted the governor of Kandahar province last week to demonstrate the vulnerabilities of the government, says battle group commander Lt.-Col. Jerry Walsh.

Allan Dwayne Schoenborn is on trial for first-degree murder in the slaying of his three children, Kaitlynne, 10, Max, 8, and Cordon, 5, in April 2008 in the B.C. Interior community of Merritt.

File photo: A floatplane flies over Saturna Island. On Sunday, a floatplane operated by Seair crashed into the ocean near Saturna; six people were killed, two survived.

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta - Canada's Manuel Osborne-Paradis won the season-opening super-giant slalom Sunday for his second career World Cup victory.

Home : Canada : Bosses now firing workers who talk on cell while driving Bosses now firing workers who talk on cell while driving Date: Sunday Nov.

Former New Democrat cabinet minister Moe Sihota is back in politics. Sihota was elected the head of the B.C. NDP at the party's biennial convention in Vancouver on Saturday.

An infant was among six people missing after a float plane crash in British Columbia's Gulf Islands, search-and-rescue officials said Sunday.

Two Alberta companies have filed proposals to build secure landfills near Dawson Creek, betting on growing volumes of drilling waste from the Montney and Horn River gas plays.

Last year, nearly 285,000 B.C. residents were living with diabetes, a figure up from 133,000 in 1998.

Daryl Johnson is arrested on drug conspiracy charges. Five men police allege to be gang members in Metro Vancouver face drug charges after a sting operation that stretched from British Columbia to Mexico.

A father's struggle to come to terms with his son's disability and a biography of media baron William Randolph Hearst are among the nominees for Canada's richest non-fiction literary prize.

Cst. D.T. Quilley uses a radar to clock speeders along the Telosky Hill in Maple Ridge on Wednesday.

"Hit the deck," cries Leading Seaman Erik Lindholm as air sirens wail. Pods of soldiers and civilians drop to the dust-caked ground or scoot into concrete bunkers just before 10 a.m. inside this sprawling desert military base of about 22,000 people.

B.C. NDP Leader Carole James is meeting this weekend with party members eager to hear how she plans to defeat the provincial Liberals in 2013.

EDMONTON a ' Edmonton police have arrested the final suspect in a violent jewelry store robbery that detectives say was carried out by members of a British Columbia gang.

Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Foster began studying piano at the age of five, and just eight years later enrolled in the University of Washington's music program.

Touring across the country might well be the closest that the Season 2 stars of So You Think You Can Dance Canada ever get to living the rockstar dream.

The number of doctors in Canada has risen over the last five years, and the rate of increase is greater than the rate of population growth, says a new report that was greeted Thursday with cautious optimism.

Thousands of protesters rally against the HST beside the Vancouver Convention Center in Vancouver on Sept.

Allan Dwayne Schoenborn, 41, is facing three first-degree murder charges in the April, 2008, killings of Kaitlynne, 10, Max, 8, and five-year-old Cordon.

The provincial government is hailing the purchase of the Carrot River sawmill and the Hudson Bay plywood mill by a B.C. company as much-needed good news for Saskatchewan's forestry industry.

Kandahar Gov. Tooryalai Wesa , seen in February 2009, lived in Coquitlam, B.C., for 13 years.

A northern Alberta sawmill is again closing indefinitely, throwing roughly 290 of its employees out of work.

Dissident Anglicans across Canada can part company with their church, but they may have to reconsider plans to take their buildings with them after a ruling by the B.C. Supreme Court.

The Anglican diocese of New Westminster and four breakaway congregations must decide among themselves who should ultimately own four disputed church properties, a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled Wednesday.

The Supreme Court of Canada has approved Robert Pickton's bid to broaden the scope of his appeal -- effectively giving him more grounds to seek a new trial.

They parlayed anger on the HST to a byelection victory in British Columbia. Now, the federal NDP wants to take that tax protest across the country.

Clayton Willey died in police custody in 2003 after being stunned with an RCMP Taser.

Julian Kirk, 51, has been identified as the homeless man killed in an apparent hit and run incident in Langley, B.C., Monday.

Home : Canada : Class-action suits filed against crib manufacturer Class-action suits filed against crib manufacturer Date: Wednesday Nov.

November 24, 2009 - Best Western International's Board of Directors named Beth Campbell its chairwoman, effective for a one-year term starting today.

Main Category: Seniors / Aging Also Included In: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia ; Psychology / Psychiatry ; Depression Article Date: 25 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST Falls among elderly people are significantly associated with several classes of drugs, including sedatives often prescribed as sleep aids and medications used to treat mood disorders, ...

B.C. author Annabel Lyon has beat out her idol, CanLit legend Alice Munro, to nab the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

A firebroke out in a building slated for demolition on the old CFB Chilliwack site east of Vancouver on Tuesday morning.

Surrey, B.C. - Published on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 4:41PM EST Last updated on Tuesday, Nov.

Quick action by a BC Ferries crew saved a 63-year-old man who jumped overboard from a ferry Tuesday.

A North Vancouver man wanted in a drug case in California was slain in a targeted hit in downtown Toronto Sunday morning.

A violent storm in Hecate Strait early Monday forced BC Ferries to turn a Skidegate-bound vessel back and return to Prince Rupert.

Home : Health : Seniors on antidepressants, sedatives more prone to falls Seniors on antidepressants, sedatives more prone to falls Date: Tuesday Nov.

Here we examine whether this marine resource can influence a terrestrial wolf-deer predator-prey system in coastal British Columbia, Canada.

A doll is shown trapped in a drop-side crib in this undated handout photo from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, made available on Monday Nov.

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Scientists at the Brain Research Centre, a partnership of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, have uncovered new information about the mechanism by which brain cells die following a stroke, as well as a possible way to mitigate that damage.

The residents of Squamish, the town wedged between Vancouver and Whistler, thought they were in the perfect location to cash in on the Olympics.

The house in West Vancouver that portayed the home of the Cullen vampire clan in the new movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon went on sale a few days ago.

Member of Sloan are Chris Murphy, left to right, Patrick Pentland, Andrew Scott and Jay Ferguson.

Coquitlam RCMP are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect in the vicious sexual assault of a 15-year-old early Saturday.

Dr. Salima Shariff, a Surrey cardiologist, feeds the baby that she and her husband, Aziz Nurmohamed, went to Nepal to adopt.

VANCOUVER a 'A A man is recovering in Vancouver hospital after being shot by an RCMP officer Saturday in Smithers.

Steve and Heather Boey have always felt safe in their Vancouver-area home, having an RCMP officer living nearby.

Halifax singer/songwriter Joel Plaskett led a big night for East Coast musicians at the fifth annual Canadian Folk Music Awards on Saturday.

Beverly Street resident Stacy George and son Charles sit in the regional emergency centre at Island Savings Centre after a foot of water flooded their home early Friday morning.

Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 6:08 p.m. SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Art Savage, the majority owner of the Sacramento River Cats, the Triple-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics, has died.

Residents of Duncan, B.C., rescued a car from the flooded streets Friday. The flood situation on Vancouver Island has improved dramatically as floodwaters recede, but officials warn more rain is on the way.

The British Columbia government is investigating a major security breach after police discovered the personal records of 1,400 income-assistance clients in the home of a government employee, the Victoria Times Colonist has learned.

A 24-year-old Vancouver entrepreneur beat out competition from around the world to win the 2009 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards .

A Mountie in B.C.'s Cariboo region is facing criminal charges and an internal investigation after allegedly assaulting a prisoner this summer.

People with arthritis and leading Canadian and international researchers will share the stage under the theme "Decoding Arthritis - A Joint Effort" when the Canadian Arthritis Network hosts its 2009 Annual Scientific Conference beginning tonight, in Vancouver, BC.

ALICE IN CHAINS ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR, NEW SINGLE "YOUR DECISION" HITS RADIO DECEMBER 7 Alice in Chains Alice In Chains have announced dates for a North American tour set to kick off at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver on February 2, 2010.

A Cowichan Valley resident takes a trip through town in his canoe. Flood waters on the Cowichan River and Koksilah River have forced the evacuation of about 300 to 400 homes in the Cowichan Valley and Duncan area of southeast Vancouver Island, officials have confirmed.

An Olympic housing plan in which thousands of visitors would have stayed on cruise ships has been called off because of the rough economy.

A northwestern B.C. First Nation has passed a historic law allowing Nisga'a citizens to own their own property, in New Aiyansh, north of Terrace, B.C. After years of consultations with Nisga'a communities in the Nass Valley and in Vancouver, Prince Rupert and Terrace, the Nisga'a have passed Nisga'a Landholding Transition Act.

A story about a six-year-old native boy who leaves home with his sister to enter a residential school has won the $25,000 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.

Three-year-old Lucy, comforted by father Ronan Oger, gets the H1N1 vaccine from nurse Michelle Sims at Mount Pleasant Community Centre Nov.

Shaun Richard Funk, 35, was arrested by Regina police late Wednesday night. Regina police have arrested a man facing sexual assault charges in British Columbia.

TACOMA, Wash. - Three separate mudslides Tuesday night caused Amtrak to suspend train service between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. on Wednesday.

This Vancouver estate is home to heartthrob vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight: New Moon , opening in movie theaters on Nov.

A 6.6 magnitude earthquake quake shook west-central British Columbia around 7:30 a.m. followed by a series of quick aftershocks, seismologists said.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says he takes responsibility for the party being "knocked around" in recent weeks.

Australian rockers AIRBOURNE have been added to MOTLEY CRUE 's "The Dead Of Winter" Canadian tour in January/February. Also appearing on the bill as "special guests" is THE JOE PERRY PROJECT .

A $26.9 million highway construction project that once seemed dead in the water appears to have been resuscitated.

Intrawest ULC has agreed to sell its Copper Mountain ski resort in Colorado to Powdr Corp.

VANCOUVER a ' When her beloved cat Brittany died in early November, Gillian Eggert figured she would bury her beside her five other late animals at the site of the old B.C. Pet Cemetery in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey.

M.G. Vassanji's fiction has been heaped with critical acclaim, but it was his non-fiction debut that grabbed the spotlight Tuesday as the Toronto writer won a Governor General's Literary Award.

Prosecutors in Washington State have filed charges of solicitation to commit first-degree murder against a laser eye surgeon accused of trying to have two colleagues killed.

A few teachers recently refused to work in British Columbia public schools because they said the prevalence of H1N1 illness among students had created an unsafe workplace.

Kate Pullinger has won the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction for her Victorian-era novel "The Mistress of Nothing." The author grew up in Cranbrook, B.C., but now lives in London.

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurred at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday off the Queen Charlotte Islands off the west coast of British Columbia.

CanLit legend Alice Munro, Newfoundland writer Michael Crummey and B.C. novelist Annabel Lyon are among those vying in the fiction category for the Governor General's Literary Awards.

Abbotsford police seized drugs and weapons from the Aldergrove house of a Red Scorpion gangster Thursday night.

As America's trade with the Far East - principally China - expanded massively during the 1980s and 1990s, California reaped the benefits as the gateway for both exports and imports.

REGINA a ' Hedley is ready to hit the road in support of its latest release The Show Must Go On .

Canadians donated $8.19 billion to charities in 2008 a ' a 5.3 per cent drop from the previous year a ' as the recession led people to contribute a little less to good causes.

Western Coal Corp. , a coal producer with projects in northern British Columbia, the United States and abroad, says its third-quarter profit plunged 95 per cent as the company saw its revenues squeezed by lower coal prices because of the recession.

Oct. 6, 1950 file photo of 10-year-old twins Brian Thomas Sullivan and Kevin James Sullivan from Islington, London, who carry their luggage to the boat train "Rangitoto" as they leave Liverpool Street station in London bound for Auckland, New Zealand.

Home : Canada : Santas prepared for holiday photo ops during flu season Santas prepared for holiday photo ops during flu season The Canadian Press Date: Sunday Nov.

Does Canada need a world-class autobahn? Transportation expert Wendell Cox investigates the issue in a new study, Creating A World Class Highway System for the Nation.

Lake Agassiz, which covered much of Central Canada, was formed about 30,000 years ago and eventually held a greater total volume than all of today's Great Lakes combined.

B.C.'s all-party finance committee is split along party lines over the controversial HST.

A Langley, B.C., couple has hired two American animal psychics to help find a missing four-legged mom.

An investigation into the H1N1-related death of a woman at a Richmond, B.C., hospital is looking into whether the hospital missed a key step in treating people with asthma.

Many homes and properties in B.C.'s Fraser Valley were hit by floodwaters in January.

More than 50 B.C. paramedics book off Saturday shifts Escalating labour dispute leaves 23 ambulances out of service in the Lower Mainland, the Fraser Valley and the Sea-to-Sky corridor Vancouver - Published on Saturday, Nov.

Canada's newly armed border guards have claimed their first victim: a hapless moose.

While Prime Minister Stephen Harper was meeting with Pacific Rim political leaders here this weekend, a group of four young Canadians were busy drumming up new investment among Asian business leaders.

A visitor to Vancouver walks down an unfamiliar street in an unknown neighborhood; the air is warm, the coffee shops plentiful, and the people happy.

Richmond RCMP's headquarters will relocate from its city centre location to the Ironwood area in 2012.

BC Ferries is hoping to launch a new route between Tsawwassen and Prince Rupert in 2011 with the M.V. Northern Expedition.

Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer serving a life sentence for killing his severely disabled daughter in 1993, has been denied his second request to the National Parole Board to be away from his B.C. halfway house for five nights a week.

Ontario deals blow to mutual fund industry REUTERS Sector isn't included in harmonized sales tax exemptions, but vows to keep up the pressure for other means to ease the cost to investors Shirley Won and Karen Howlett Published on Thursday, Nov.

Now 84 and Canadian, Walter Schmietenknop belonged to the German navy during the Second World War.

A couple in Prince George B.C., are facing charges after what police call a vicious beating of their 13-year-old son.

Some of the gold coins seized CBSA agents say they found with Khaled Nawaya at a border crossing south of Vancouver.

The rural Abbotsford home, where the body of a woman was found after a fire, is behind police tape.

Ralph Lauren's affinity for Americana will be on full display on athletes at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia -- complete with red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes flags and, of course, polo ponies.

A 47-year-old woman who bit and slashed her boyfriend went on to attack two other men who tried to intervene early Tuesday morning in Surrey's Whalley neighbourhood, sending one man to hospital.

An investigation has been launched into one of B.C.'s latest swine flu deaths as the family of the asthmatic victim alleges negligence on the part of Richmond Hospital.

A body was found at the scene of an Abbotsford house fire this morning, and homicide investigators were called to the scene.

Ralph Lauren's affinity for Americana will be on full display on athletes at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia -- complete with red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes flags and, of course, polo ponies.

This inspection of this North Vancouver house has led to a B.C. Supreme Court decision that could have major implications for home inspectors.

Canada's high jobless regions are losing out as billions in federal stimulus money flows into areas that have been spared the worst of the recession, an analysis by The Canadian Press suggests.

Private/public partnerships continue to evolve in British Columbia. The system is not remaining static.

First there were 96, then there were five. And on Tuesday, just one will remain: The winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the annual award recognizing excellence in Canadian fiction, will be announced at a 9 p.m. ET gala presentation in Toronto to be broadcast live on Bravp and BookTelevision .

Linden MacIntyre, a veteran broadcast journalist best known for his investigative reporting, has won the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Bishop's Man .

Paranoia and naivete led a Syrian man to lie about why he was crossing the border with nearly $1 million in gold and what's been called "terrorist resources," says the lawyer for the man who has been held as a potential security threat since early last month.

Families in several provinces were expressing outrage and concern Tuesday after they said their children got double the recommended dose of the H1N1 vaccine, but at least one medical expert said there's little need for concern.

Submitted by Billy Hackett on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 06:54. The Coast Guard says it has suspended its search for a Filipino crewman missing from a cargo ship north of Dutch Harbor.

A Crown decision not to lay charges against the Vancouver police officer who shot a man suffering from bipolar disorder eight times on a street has left the man's father questioning the lack of input from civilian witnesses.

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, joined nearly 1,000 parishioners and guests for a special Remembrance Sunday service at Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria Sunday.

Prince Charles, wearing a sword and a Canadian naval uniform Monday during a blustery outdoor ceremony marking the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Canadian navy, reminisced about serving alongside Canadian sailors during the Cold War.

The federal parties are test-driving their campaign machines in four byelections today.

Four federal byelections are underway Monday: one in B.C., two in Quebec and one in Nova Scotia.

Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Foster began studying piano at the age of five, and just eight years later enrolled in the University of Washington's music program.

An aggressive cancer linked to asbestos is killing more Canadians than ever before, even decades after the end of a boom that saw buildings stuffed with the toxic substance.

Trades training in British Columbia's central interior will get a boost with plans for construction of the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, B.C. The headline project is a new trades and technical education centre, estimated to cost $19.7 million.

Bunny Campbell says she was excited, but also a bit frightened to be part of the front-row crowd waiting to greet Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, before Sunday church.

An additional 15,800 troops are needed to properly secure Kandahar so that reconstruction efforts and training of the Afghan army can continue, says a conservative U.S. think-tank. A presentation by the American Enterprise Institute, widely circulated among western allies, painted a detailed, bleak picture of the American or NATO resources military ...

Four federal byelections to be held Monday should give a reading of the nation's political temperature, as voters in three provinces - British Columbia, Quebec and Nova Scotia - will have an opportunity to shake up the balance of the House of Commons.

Trail, B.C. - The Canadian Press Published on Sunday, Nov. 08, 2009 10:27AM EST Last updated on Sunday, Nov.

New research shows that the widely used pain reliever acetaminophen may be associated with an increased risk of asthma and wheezing in both children and adults exposed to the drug.

Canada's unemployment rate rose slightly in October, with the economy shedding 43,200 jobs in the month.

Prince Charles and Camilla are greeted by Vancouver 2010 Olympic mascots during a tour of the athletes village.

Shaun Richard Funk is wanted on warrants for sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery, and break and enter, the RCMP said in a news release.

Home : Politics : Supreme Court to hear Alcan appeal over B.C. power deal Supreme Court to hear Alcan appeal over B.C. power deal Date: Thursday Nov.

Heather Scoffield Ottawa - Published on Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009 8:11PM EST Last updated on Thursday, Nov.

Last year, Chilliwack, B.C., R&B singer-songwriter Inez was at Manito Ahbee Festival handing out copies of her three-song demo.

Three Vancouver teenagers are facing charges after a 16-year-old boy was stripped, beaten and assaulted with a stun device as part of an apparent extortion attempt in Richmond, B.C. Police responded to a report of an assault underway Wednesday evening in an open field near Alexandra Road and Hazelbridge Way.

Prince Charles and Camilla wave to the crowd greeting them outside the B.C. legislature Friday.

British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen will chair a federal commission of inquiry into the collapse of Fraser River sockeye salmon runs, Trade Minister Stockwell Day announced Friday in Vancouver.

A Maple Ridge woman has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of her husband on Tuesday.

A severed foot found in a Vancouver suburb last week has been identified as belonging to a man missing since last year.

A view of the McGill University campus in Montreal. The school took the No. 1 spot in the medical doctoral category and the University of Toronto was ranked second, its same rank as last year.

Police report a 12-year-old girl was accosted in West Vancouver earlier this week by an aggressive man asking for money.

PM announces probe into B.C. salmon stocks In this 2006 file photo, B.C. sockeye salmon gather in the shallows of the Adams River near Chase, B.C. northeast of Vancouver.

RCMP Const. Kwesi Millington is seen on a television holding up the stapler Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski was holding the night he died, while testifying at the Braidwood inquiry into Dziekanski's death in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday, March 2, 2009.

New research shows that the widely used pain reliever acetaminophen may be associated with an increased risk of asthma and wheezing in both children and adults exposed to the drug.

People with multiple sclerosis who have relapses within the first five years of onset appear to have more severe disability in the short term compared to people who do not have an early relapse, according to a new study published in the November 4, 2009, issue of Neurology A , the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

BRAID WINDING ITS WAY TO PLAYSTATION NETWORK SOON Hothead Games Bringing Beloved Indie Game to New Platform VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Nov.

By The Canadian Press Published: November 04, 2009 4:04 PM Updated: November 04, 2009 4:09 PM ST.

The mother of a young Kelowna woman murdered 16 years ago has some strong words for her daughter's accused killer.

A man is dead and his wife remains in custody following a domestic dispute Tuesday in Maple Ridge.

Reviewers have praised its emphasis on fresh local ingredients and the simplicity of its cuisine.

SURREY, B.C. a ' A man was arrested in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey after he defecated on the seat of a car, wiped himself off with a Bible and then sought refuge in a nearby police vehicle.

Lineup at South Vancouver Clinic at 6405 Knight for H1N1 flu shots in Vancouver, October 27, 2009.

When I first put a call out for local fans of the "Twilight" series on Monday, I wasn't sure what to expect.

A fugitive former adviser to a Thai bank whose failure caused a crisis of confidence that helped spark the 1997 Asian financial meltdown arrived Friday night in Bangkok after his extradition from Canada.

Two Canadian men have been charged with depositing very large, illegitimate IRS refund checks.

Some time after his novel The Cellist of Sarajevo was released in the United States, the author Steven Galloway received a note from his American publisher, apologizing for what it deemed to be slow sales of the book.

The Public Health Agency of Canada is rolling out its first doses of unadjuvanted H1N1 flu vaccine this week, a move that should offer relief to pregnant women unwilling to bare their arms for the adjuvanted shot.

Two old flames passed the torch in a strange turn of events on Day 4 of the Olympic relay Monday morning.

A $155-million writedown related to West Fraser Timber Co.'s Kitimat pulp mill and other sawmill assets contributed to a third quarter loss of $198 million, or $4.64 a share for the B.C. lumber giant.

Bill Gates spent his 54th birthday last week at a U2 concert in Vancouver, B.C. -- not unlike any ordinary guy in his mid-50s, celebrating the passing of another year by watching one of his favorite old bands with his wife by his side.

A campaign to change the name of Vancouver to Fort Vancouver is gaining support.

Dr. Gord Asmundson of the University of Regina: 'It's about a sense of uncertainty combined with the feeling of having no control over a situation.

The new Pitt River Bridge has opened in Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, with the aim of reducing congestion and cutting travel times for the almost 90,000 vehicles that cross each day.

Among the First Nations of Cascadia, tree pitch is harvested, hardened in cold water, then chewed for pleasure like gum.

Chinese health authorities take passenger temperatures in a check for swine flu.

THEIR latest album bears the stamp of the Nowhere Town label, providing an instant pointer to the heartland of Canadian four-piece Headwater.

They lived in Canada's small towns and big cities, from coast to coast. They were children, parents, friends and neighbours.

The Olympic torch relay got on its way this morning in Victoria BC. There was a ceremony at the legislature this morning, which I was able to attend, to start the process.

The Olympic flame continues its journey across Canada - on foot, bicycle and wheelchair.

WASHINGTON, DC , October 30, 2009 - The Obama administration is financing an expansion of the U.S. geothermal industry, investing $338 million in Recovery Act grant funding to support the exploration and development of new geothermal fields and research into advanced geothermal technologies.