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UNBC president George Iwama will be the first guest speaker at Cafe Scientifique, which will take place at Cafe Voltaire in Books & Company Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

Maximizing the carbon stored in B.C.'s forests could provide benefits both economically and environmentally over the long-term, says a new report, Managing B.C.'s Forests for a Cooler Planet.

For more than 50 years, the skies above Prince George doubled as an air highway with flying machines ranging from open cockpit biplanes to high winged monoplanes to four-engine propeller jobs.

Police wrapped-up their search on Monday of a farm owned by convicted anti-industrial saboteur Wiebo Ludwig after seizing "a variety of items.

A six-month undercover operation called Prudent has resulted in dismantling a sophisticated drug operation along with the confiscation of rock cocaine, cash, an assault rifle and ammunition, and two vehicles. RCMP Cst.

Snowpack in the Upper Fraser drainage basin is well above normal according to numbers from the provincial government's river forecast centre. As of Jan. 1, the snow water index for the region was 123 per cent above normal.

A 51-year-old woman died Friday afternoon after colliding with a tree while skiing at Hudson Bay Mountain in Smithers.

One man is recovering from a stab wound and another has been arrested following an altercation early Saturday morning in a home in the 1100 block of Ahbau Street. Police were called to the scene at about 2:45 a.m.

The streets are cold places for the women who walk them selling their bodies, but when the mercury dips to this week's temperatures it can be especially cruel punishment.

A Prince George student has won a library of her favourite books. Ashleigh Johnston, a Grade 3 student at Pinewood elementary school, sketched her way to the rare prize.