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Eric's World of Leisure, located at 140 Quebec Street downtown Prince George, burned Friday night. Owner Shirley Moore said her ex-husband was the lone occupant of the building when the fire started at about 9:30 p.m. Friday.

Police have announced the names of the two young victims of a fatal car crash on Thursday. Both were from Prince George, according to Const. Madonna Saunderson of the RCMPS's Prince George Regional Traffic Services.

A woman was attacked by a sexual offender late at night, this weekend. He was a stranger to her, and police are on the hunt for this assailant. Police are calling the attack an aggravated sexual assault.

Another Chinese company's entry into the Alberta oil sands is putting Enbridge's proposed $4.5-billion pipeline, which would pass just north of Prince George, in the spotlight. State-owned Chinese-giant Sinopec has struck a $4.

The hard-hit forest-based community of Mackenzie took another step Friday towards recovery as its shuttered pulp mill, down for two years, was purchased by Asian-giant Sinarmas in a $20-million deal.

It was TV host and do-it-yourself guru Bryan Baeumler's Godfather III moment. The job started as the innocent renovation of a second-storey home office for the face of HGTV's Disaster DIY.

Eric's World of Leisure will reopen in a temporary location a block away by Wednesday, says owner Shirley Moore, after a spectacular fire gutted its store on Quebec Street near First Avenue on Friday night.

Victim Services Week is a fine opportunity to attend a number of workshops that have to do with dynamics of abuse and crime.

The LiveSmart B.C. energy efficiency incentive program will continue for another year thanks to the inclusion of $35 million in the 2010 provincial budget, energy mines and petroleum resources minister Blair Lekstrom said Friday.

A Prince George man whose family has been devastated often by cancer is fighting back with his vision for a cancer-free world.