Prince Rupert News

Updated: Wed Dec. 09 2009 22:54:16 ctvbc.ca Prince Rupert is planning to celebrate its 100th birthday in March by unearthing a time capsule that was buried 40 years ago.

Monica Lamb-Yorski Prince Rupert, B.C. - The Canadian Press Published on Tuesday, Dec.

The Port of Prince Rupert on British Columbia's remote northern coast, although tied to the U.S. Midwest by one ribbon of Canadian National Railways steel that is strikebound now, was not suffering on the third day of the CN locomotive engineers' strike Monday.

The second opportunity for Prince Rupert residents to learn more and ask questions about potential changes at School District 52 comes up on Wednesday night at Charles Hays Secondary School .

When a water pipe bursts these days in a British Columbia pulp and paper town, residents better dig out their rain boots.

Canadian National and the union representing 1,700 striking locomotive engineers reached a tentative deal Wednesday.

The Weta suweta en are outright opposed for the proposed development of Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines.

Canadian National locomotive engineers started picketing Saturday morning outside Edmonton's main rail yard after talks between their union and CN hit an impasse and they went on strike.

John Weston, the Member of Parliament for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country, and Don Krusel, President & CEO of the Prince Rupert Port Authority, today announced three new infrastructure projects valued at just over $3 million to help the Prince Rupert Port Authority upgrade, repair and renovate existing infrastructure.

The Transportation Safety Board and BC Ferries have launched separate investigations into a ferry that got thrashed around in violent seas earlier this week, an overnight incident that damaged several cars and left passengers shaken.

At a public meeting to be held on November 30, B.C. Ferries hopes to gain some public input into their planning process for a proposed new northern ferry route.

The Northern Adventure has had a brief and checkered history in the BC Ferries fleet.

A BC Ferries crew that aborted a trip after hitting violent seas knew about the storm before departing, but the storm hit much more quickly and with greater ferocity than expected, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

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

A tipped chair and shelved goods strewn across the floor of the gift shop aboard the Northern Adventure after the ship was tossed on the waves of B.C.'s Hecate Strait early Monday.

AN EARTHQUAKE IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN NEAR THE SOUTHERN TIP OF THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS THIS MORNING WAS FELT AS FAR AWAY AS PRINCE RUPERT, AND PERHAPS EVEN PRINCE GEORGE, ACCORDNG TO A GOVERNMENT SCIENTIST.

More than 150 workers and community supporters marched through downtown Prince George today protesting the B.C. government's repressive Bill 21.

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 strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake occurred early Tuesday Nov. 17, 2009 in the Queen Charlotte Islands region off of B.C.'s central west coast, according to Earthquakes Canada.

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