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6 days ago | 
terracestandard.com | Rod Link
Caledonia Secondary students were urged to consider health care careers thanks to a group of a dozen post-secondary students offering a glimpse of their chosen professions May 5.
The travelling roadshow, organized through the UBC Northern Medical Program at UNBC, nearly a dozen health care representatives are also making stops this week in Kitimat, the Nass Valley and Lax Kw'alaams on the north coast.
From a start in 2010, the roadshow concept has expanded down south and to Vancouver Island.
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6 days ago | 
terracestandard.com | Rod Link
Early each Friday morning a group of volunteers gathers in the gym at Parkside Secondary School.
There, in an assembly line fashion honed by experience, they package up food in shopping bags for delivery to area schools.
"We're there around 7:45 a.m. and often out the door and off to the schools by 8:30 a.m.," says Rotary Club of Terrace - Skeena Valley president Terry Morris.
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1 week ago | 
interior-news.com | Rod Link
The Town of Smithers is one of three local governments to ensure indigenous peoples are included in emergency planning and measures.
Each of the town, the District of Houston and the Village of Telkwa received $40,000 provincial grants, which they are now combining to sign a $109,000 contract with consulting company Colliers Project Management.
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1 week ago | 
terracestandard.com | Rod Link
The Pacific Northwest Music Festival has clearly shaken off the pandemic with a full roster of performers displaying their talents at various venues from March 27 to April 12 before appreciative audiences and supporters.
With 2,605 participants in 1,148 entries this year, the numbers are a clear statement that the festival has recovered, notes president Kelly Lima.
And that's evident in the estimate more than 3,000 audience members who viewed performances over the festival period, she added.
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1 week ago | 
houston-today.com | Rod Link
Authorities are looking for the person or persons responsible for several acts of vandalism at the District of Houston's duck viewing platform extensively updated and repaired just late last year.
The initials 'MV' and 'LJ' along with the slogan '4 Ever' were burned into the platform's wood construction within the last several days.
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1 week ago | 
terracestandard.com | Rod Link
Skeena MLA Claire Rattée is finally close to opening her Terrace constituency office after nearly eight months of delays—while a potential second office in Kitimat remains on hold for the time being.
Although Rattée, elected last October, will occupy the same space in the Lazelle Ave. mini-mall in Terrace as her predecessor, B.C. United MLA Ellis Ross, she's had to wait for the administrative arm of the provincial legislative assembly to sign a lease and make other arrangements.
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1 week ago | 
interior-news.com | Rod Link
School District 54 trustees have approved giving themselves a modest pay boost in line with an increase in the Consumer Price Index for B.C.
The increase of 2.5 per cent as of July 1, 2025 follows a policy adopted by the board years ago.
That policy calls for an increase each July 1 based on the Consumer Price Index unless trustees vote against that provision.
At the March school board meeting, five trustees voted in favour and one was opposed.
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1 week ago | 
terracestandard.com | Rod Link
B.C. Wildfire Service officials are keeping a close eye on weather forecasts as warmer spring weather takes hold in the northwest.
The entire province experienced an abnormally dry January and a February that was drier than usual, a weather forecast briefing document from the service explained. There's also been a below average snowpack at higher elevations, an important consideration when it comes to lightning-caused fires.
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1 week ago | 
houston-today.com | Rod Link
A five-year lease will see Houston Link to Learning's community garden into its 30th year.
The lease is for $1 a year and is for the District of Houston-owned property at 2620 Copeland Ave. North.
"Over the years we have added so many pieces with various grants, more recently these have included a greenhouse, more raised beds, an outdoor kitchen and a grassed area for additional programming, it really is an amazing space," said Marian Ells, Houston Link to Learning's executive director.
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1 week ago | 
terracestandard.com | Rod Link
Motorists parking at Ksyen Regional Hospital will need to be patient a little while longer until more spaces are provided.
Demolition of the old Mills Memorial Hospital building and clean up is ongoing to make room for a new parking lot. But in the meantime, vehicles are stretched down the length of Tetrault in front of Ksyen — a line that often continues south of the intersection of Tetrault and Haugland.
