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The North Peace SPCA is launching a membership drive this month, with the goal of recruiting 30 new members by the end of February.

A summary of sentences and fines handed out in Northeast B.C. courts for the week ending Feb. 1, 2019.

Pembina Pipeline Corporation says it has made a positive final investment decision on a $4.5-billion petrochemical facility in Alberta's Industrial Heartland.

School buses in School District 60 have been cancelled Monday due to extreme cold. The cancellations affect all routes for Feb. 4. Schools remain open. The region is under an extreme cold warning thanks to a blast of cold Arctic air.

A Supreme Court of Canada ruling this week that puts environment remediation ahead of creditors when an oil and gas company goes bankrupt could have implications for the mining and oil and gas industries in B.C.

The population in the B.C. Peace grew by 190 people in 2018, according to year-end estimates from BC Stats. The region's population was estimated at 65,901, up 0.3% from 65,711 in 2017. All municipalities in the region saw marginal population gains.

If you're looking to talk politics over breakfast, MP Bob Zimmer will host a town hall to talk about potential caribou closures in the region on Saturday morning.

When the Trudeau government announced last year it would buy the Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan Canada for $4.5 billion, Conservative MP Gérard Deltell said the government was paying $2 billion more than it was worth.

The Environmental Assessment Office says Coastal GasLink is back in compliance after the agency found workers had breached conditions related to work on the pipeline in south of Houston.

Pembina Pipeline Corporation has approved an additional expansion of its Peace Pipeline system (Phase VIII), which will accommodate incremental customer demand in the Montney area by debottlenecking constraints, accessing downstream capacity, and fur