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News Headlines from Prince Rupert, BC

• Dining

  Bob Fraumeni makes no bones about the need to develop value-added seafood industries as opposed to flogging fish as fast as possible.

• Dan Rogers - Mayor Twinning and trading

  Mayor Dan Rogers and team from the City of Prince George left for China on Thursday to seek a twinning relationship with the City of Jiangmen.

• Ferry crew blamed for sinking

  The fourth officer on the bridge of the Queen of the North failed to alter course, and the quartermaster at the helm couldn't find the switch to turn off autopilot before the ferry crashed and sank, a B.C. Ferries' investigation has found.

• Alternative energy developments important to Vancouver

  Sea Breeze Power Corporation, a Vancouver based alternative energy energy developer recently announced that Ontario based International Power Canada Inc.

• Cannery workers reap rewards of record sockeye catch

  Thousands flock to the Steveston fishing docks in Richmond to take advantage of the fresh sockeye salmon and other types of seafood after one of the biggest Fraser River sockeye salmon catches in years on Saturday, August 28, 2010.

• Horsefly Fall Fair tomorrow

  The Horsefly Fall Fair is coming up Saturday, Aug. 28 at the Horsefly Community Hall from noon to 4 p.m. The opening ceremony is at 12:30 p.m. and the livestock judging begins at 10:30 a.m. Admission is $2 and there will be door prizes and a food concession.

• No mail on sick days: Canada Post union

  Letter carriers in B.C. have filed a stack of grievances to protest Canada Post's refusal to backfill them when they take time off work, according to their union.

• Who Are BC's Best Neglected Writers?

  Sheila Watson: avant-garde novelist from BC's interior. This province has a literary history going back over a century, but we seem to have forgotten most of our key authors.

• Thomas ready to hit roads for cancer

  This year Shaun Thomas will take part in the 864 kilometre Cops for Cancer Tour de North ride from Prince George to Prince Rupert, starting September 10 and running until September 16, as the media rider.

• Thomas ready to hit roads for cancer

  Martina PERRY/Black Press Northern View editor Shaun Thomas prepares for this year's edition of the Cops for Cancer Tour de North, which starts in Prince George on Sept.