Drivers can expect delays during overnight hours on provincial highways between Prince Rupert and Chetwynd from Jan. 27 to 30, 2021.

Drivers can expect delays on provincial highways between Prince Rupert and Chetwynd from Jan. 10-14, 2021.

The Lax Kw’alaams Band and the Province have partnered to open eight new affordable rental homes for Indigenous Elders in the Village of Lax Kw’alaams.

In partnership with the City of Prince Rupert and North Coast Transition Society, the Province is responding to a growing need for supportive housing, and is moving ahead with 36 units of modular housing at 1450 Park Ave., with construction to begin this summer.

More than 600 members of the Tsimshian First Nations are benefitting from courses ranging from driver’s training and essential skills upgrading to environmental monitoring, trades training and other job-related education programs delivered close to home.

Skilled trades students in three regional school districts will benefit from a three-year, $15-million investment by the B.C. government to support youth trades programs with the purchase of new trades training equipment.

More students will be offered the chance to pursue a career in health care thanks to one-time targeted funding for the introduction to health practices program at Northwest Community College.

Work clothes? Check. Books? Check. Tools? Check. A place to stay? Check. Students in the Prince Rupert School District are packing their bags and traveling to other B.C. communities for enhanced skills, technical, and trades training opportunities thanks to $5,000 for the school district from the Province’s Skills Training Access Grant.

 Students, teachers and staff at Conrad Elementary school in the Prince Rupert school district will benefit from $376,575 in provincial School Enhancement Program funding.