News

Canada Post staff across the country and in Williams Lake will head back to work today.

Outgoing Stampede Queen Savannah Davies-Laviolette gently places her crown on the head of her successor, Davana Mahon, Saturday night in a ceremony held at the Elks Hall kicking off a week of activities in the lakecity to celebrate the 85th annual Williams Lake Stampede and Canada Day.

The Tribune is pleased to present our annual Casual Country supplement, inserted into today’s paper.

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.

City Council has approved the purchase of a bulk water dispensing system that will be installed adjacent to the existing sani-station at the Stampede Grounds.

Sheryl Gibbs and son Shayden Limoges, 9, in Grade 3 at Cataline elementary, look at some “long neck” portraits that were part of the school’s Streets of Learning open house last Wednesday evening.

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

The City of Williams Lake began velocity patching on several streets throughout the city last week.

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.

The hazer (on the grey horse, left) Bronc Twan (Alkali Lake) and the steer wrestling horse are speeding away, leaving steer wrestler Willee Twan of Alkali Lake behind in their dust at the Ashcroft BCRA Rodeo June 19.