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Two-week extension in response to postal service delays

On Sunday night the government passed Bill C-6 ordering the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) back to work.

Funding for new energy efficient upgrades at the Tom Forsyth Memorial Arena was approved last week.

The search is still on for 20 year old Madison Scott who has been missing since May 28 after disappearing from Hogsback Lake, south of Vanderhoof.

It will run 24 hours a day, seven days a week for 30 years.

The six month anniversary of the death of Southside teen, Chassidy Charlie, 17, passed last week with a memorial walk through Burns Lake.

A capsized canoe resulted in one man drowning last week.

Former Vancouver Olympic boss John Furlong and former Nova Scotia deputy attorney general Doug Keefe have been appointed co-chairs of a review into the June 15 Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver.

It will take weeks to repair multiple road and highway washouts caused by a once-in-40-years rainstorm in northeast B.C.

Peace River North MLA Pat Pimm has resigned as a parliamentary secretary for natural gas development and quit the B.C. Liberal caucus after being arrested in a domestic dispute at his home Sunday.