Local, Regional News

PRINCE GEORGE — WestJet has denied compensation to a devout Taylor Swift fan whose cancelled flight triggered a 10-hour drive through the night from Prince George to make the singer's shows in Vancouver last month. Read More

Greater Vancouver home sales rose 31.2 per cent on a year-over-year basis in December, capping what realtors called a “pivot year” for the market as the number of homes changing hands in the region ticked higher. Read More

Weekly roundup of three properties that recently sold in Metro Vancouver. Read More

VICTORIA — With one of the year’s booziest holidays under revellers’ belts and pledges of a dry January underway, a University of Victoria institute is launching a new website that allows people to see the impact of drinking on their personal health. Read More

On Jan. 5, 1912, the city of Vancouver had its first professional hockey game. Read More

Infectious disease experts say the avian flu case that infected a 13-year-old B.C. girl shows worrying signs that the virus could be mutating to more easily infect humans, but that the treatment approach taken can help influence future cases. Read More

A look at Saturday's Edmonton weather from Environment Canada. Read More

Perhaps it's premature to extend our final thank you to everyone who donated to the Leader-Post Christmas Cheer Fund. Read More

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Three days a week, as many as 40 people from all walks of life line up in a parking lot behind the shuttered Holy Rosary School, each with a grocery bag in hand. Read More

Reflecting on 2024, it is evident that no growing seasons are alike anymore, and from the view of B.C. winegrowers, they hope 2025 will be about as different as it can be from 2024. Read More

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Saskatchewan is the world’s largest potash producer. As Erin Weir indicates in his Dec. 24 letter, due to sanctions imposed on Russian and Belarusian potash because of the war in Ukraine, the price of potash has shot up in the last few years. Read More

Tayler Grace: This local folk musician, songwriter, and good-taste cover artist released her bittersweet debut EP Let You Go last year between shifts as a local elementary school teacher herding munchkins. Read More

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In November, Alberta Health staff walked into a restaurant in Calgary and noticed a number of health violations — the dishwasher wasn’t properly sanitized, a can of tomato paste had mould growing on it and some cleaning cloths were laying on the floor, to name a few. Read More

It’s taken more than a dozen years to reach this point, but get ready for Canada’s long-awaited LNG industry to finally start up in 2025. Read More

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For the second time in under a week, the once-lowly Anaheim Ducks gave Edmonton Oilers all they could handle. Once again the Ducks bounced back from a 2-0 deficit to tie the game and very nearly took the lead with 3 minutes to play. Read More

The bitterness of the Friday evening cold mirrored the sombre vigil in northwest Calgary honouring two victims of the plague of domestic violence. Read More