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A local man is in custody and faces several charges stemming from an alleged stabbing incident three days before Christmas. Brendan Robert Richard, 20, was arrested Dec.

When it comes to crime, 2016 could well be remembered for a summertime spree of gunplay in areas of the city where it was least expected.

Northern Health is urging the public avoid visiting patients at University Hospital of Northern B.C. to help stem an outbreak of a gastrointestinal illness at the hospital.

Prince George's New Year's baby has arrived. Alma Elvira Baerg was born at the University Hospital of Northern B.C. in Prince George on January 1 at 1:55 a.m.to mom Stephanie and dad Joel.

Away from the hallway chatter that crescendos with the recess bell Devon Michelle Gatey's principal guides her into a sparse room with her father and a trio of program facilitators.

The University of B.C. has cancelled John Furlong as keynote guest speaker at a coming fundraising event, apparently to avoid controversy. Furlong had been scheduled to speak at the ZLC Millennium Scholarship Breakfast on Feb.

Civil court legal battles were won, lost, launched - and generated plenty of press - during the past year. Perhaps the biggest to come to an end was that between Northern Development Initiative Trust and Commonwealth Campus Corporation.

Although there's plenty of joyful news The Citizen is always happy to share, there is a flip side where the community loses beloved members throughout the year. Harold Mann, a Prince George boxing icon, died on Oct.

The clicking of the camera tapped out a message of recovery for a Prince George woman recovering from a stroke.

It's all thanks to Bea Dezell. "Bea got me started," said Sylvia Cooney, 89, volunteer for the Canadian Council of the Blind White Cane Club, Prince George chapter, for more than 30 years.