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There will be 20 new campsites at the Six Mile Bay recreation site near Mackenzie by the time camping season starts, the Ministry of Environment said this week, up from just one in past years.

A new fire truck is in Prince George Fire Rescue's hands. Along with the other capabilities a typical fire truck provides, it features a 75-foot mid-mount ladder.

If you spent any time down at the Pomeroy Sport Centre in Dawson Creek, you may notice one particular athlete accompanied by his dog. The athlete is speed skater Kevin Frost, and the dog is Lewis, Frost's seeing eye dog.

The NDP campaign office opened its doors Thursday and Prince George-Mackenzie candidate Bobby Deepak says he's ready to work. "It feels good and it's a very exciting time. It's going to mean a lot of hard work and we're ready," Deepak said.

The bikini event isn't nearly as revealing as the reasons Emmerson Taylor will be competing in the Miss Universe-Canada pageant. The young Prince George woman is stepping into the spotlight not to flaunt or to strike a pose.

The provincial government is putting $111,000 towards a emergency medical responder and industrial medic training program to be taught at College of New Caledonia. It will be enough to teach 16 students with the program begins in June.

Prince George lumber manufacturer John Brink will be standing on broader ground when his legal battle with BCR Properties Ltd. over a failed land deal heads to court. In a decision issued Thursday, B.C.

A B.C. Supreme Court Justice has dismissed a lawsuit against the Fraser-Fort George Regional District from a group of property owners living along the Nechako River, finding the plaintiffs took too long to file.

School District 57 will receive $1.6 million in funding for school upgrades and classroom supplies, the provincial government announced Thursday.

A jury found a Terrace man not guilty Wednesday of killing a former Prince George man. Travis Leslie Stephens, now 32, had faced a count of second-degree murder in the Sept.