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Art has brought in a whole new perspective on learning for one local school. Being an inner city school in Prince George, Ron Brent elementary has always tried to find new strategies to help students learn.

Single-family homes typically sold for upwards of $15,000 more than they did during the same period last year, according to first-quarter B.C. Northern Real Estate Board numbers released Thursday.

Both the Conservation Officer Service and Northern Bear Awareness are emphasizing a need to keep garbage out of reach as bears start to emerge from a long winter's sleep.

Prince George RCMP are requesting the public's help in locating a parolee wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after he failed to return to his designated residence earlier this month.

The provincial government has reached an agreement with members of the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council meant to increase its members First Nations' participation in the forest economy.

Steps are being taken to get support in place for the workers forced out of their jobs by a fire at a major employer in McBride, the village's mayor says. The blaze, which erupted Wednesday morning, destroyed BKB Cedar Manufacturing Ltd.

A petition campaign has been launched to stop logging outside the southern end of Wells Gray Provincial Park, saying the activity poses a further threat to the region's dwindling herd of southern mountain caribou.

During the last Citizen poll we asked "The provincial election is just two months away.

Maybe bigger is better. But how safe would nine axle logging trucks be if they began making their way routinely through Prince George? This was one of the concerns voiced at a Prince George city council meeting on Monday.

To honour his murdered mother and those who face a similar fate across the globe, master carver Lenard Paquette Jackson, of the Cree Nation, is letting his work send out its message.