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It's going to be a windy day with a high of 7 C

The city's unemployment rate stood at 4.9 per cent in September as the number of people holding down jobs slipped below 50,000 for the first time in a half year, according to a Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers.

The decision comes from a major penalty and game misconduct on Oct. 6

An investigation of a complaint from two trappers has concluded salvage logging in the Nazko region is threatening the ability of the fisher population to survive, B.C.'s forest practices watchdog said Thursday.

Other B.C. municipalities aren't so lucky

Minerva's Learning to Lead Program for Grade 11 girls is expanding to Prince George

Residential real estate investors hoping to make a quick buck in Kitimat are running into veteran property owners who are jacking up prices as the largest private investment in Canadian history avalanches onto the town.

Pacific Northern Gas is planning an expansion of an existing natural gas pipeline that runs from Summit Lake, north of Prince George to Kitimat, if it can get producers in northeastern B.C. to sign up for capacity on the new line.

Voters head to the polls Oct. 20

Police have found no evidence that Tuesday's pipeline blast involved criminal wrongdoing. "After reviewing known information by all stakeholders, there are no indications that the explosion was criminal in nature," RCMP said Thursday.