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News Headlines from Powell River, BC

• $1.3 Million Helps Link Workers With Island Jobs

  " The Job Opportunities Program and the Island Coastal Economic Trust is providing approximately $1.3 million in funding to assist Vancouver Island communities by providing jobs and improvements to area trails and recreation sites, said Ministry of Community and Rural Development Minister Ben Stewart.

• B.C. government ends arousal tests on teen sex offenders

  B.C. minister of children and family development Mary Polak. B.C.a s minister of children and family development has said that penile plethysmography, a controversial method of arousal testing, will no longer be used on teen sexual offenders.

• B.C. adopts new limits for greenhouse-gas emissions with new a cap and tradea system

  British Columbia is imposing new emission limits and financial penalties on its biggest industrial air polluters.

• Video: Floatplane recovered in Sunshine Coast crash

  Two men playing softball nearby rushed to the rescue of the pilot and two passengers after a floatplane crashed on Powell Lake on Saturday, July 24, 2010.

• Trip worth every penny, says mom

  " A recent trip to Costa Rica yielded more than a Perkinsfield woman and her 33-year-old daughter could possibly have hoped for.

• Quick-thinking pilot credited for saving lives in float plane accident

  The wreckage of the Atleo River Air Cessna 185 was put onto a transport in Tofino, destined for a Transportation Safety Board site in Richmond for further investigation.

• Could WSF Follow the Course That BC Ferries Charted?

  Passengers unload from the Queen of Burnaby, a BC Ferry that crosses the Straight of Georgia between Little River on Vancouver Island and Powell River on the Sunshine Coast.

• Cigale de France youth choir here this Thursday

  Lae Cigale de France is a children and youth choir that won top honours at the recent International Choral Festival held in Powell River.

• B.C. needs colorectal-cancer screening program: UBC study

  A colorectal-cancer screening program, similar to those that exist for breast and cervical cancers, would reduce death rates by up to 83 per cent and reduce incidence by up to 81 per cent, according to a University of B.C. study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal .

• Woman dead after falling from B.C. cliff

  VICTORIA a ' A woman is dead after falling off a cliff on a British Columbia island Sunday night, officials said.