Local News

The city's unemployment rate stood at 6.5 per cent in November, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers issued Friday - unchanged both year-over-year and month-over-month.

British Columbians interested in cutting their own Christmas tree should obtain their permit online or contact their local forest district or FrontCounter BC office, the provincial government said this week.

Volunteer fire departments are scrambling to determine where they stand in relation to new training standards the B.C. Fire Commissioner has brought into play.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. has failed to convince a B.C. Supreme Court Justice it deserves a break on stumpage for timber it had been harvesting in the vicinity of Williston Lake.

A Prince George RCMP officer used naloxone early Friday morning to bring a 28-year-old man back to life after he had overdosed on an opiate. Emergency personnel were called to a Chief Lake Road home just after 5 a.m.

RCMP are continuing to ask drivers to use extra caution as winter sets in after responding to a trio of serious collisions over Wednesday and Thursday.

A woman was sentenced Thursday to five years in jail for her role in a multi-city property crime spree that ended in Prince George.

Prince George RCMP are asking residents to drop off enough food items on Saturday to "pack a police car." Detachment officers, staff and volunteers will be at all four Save-On Foods from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

A power outage has curtailed service at city hall.

Overdoses have decreased significantly since last week's spike but continue to show higher-than-normal numbers in Prince George. Northern Health and Prince George RCMP sent out a warning Nov. 23 after the city saw 12 overdoses in three days.