Local News

Five trades departments at the College of New Caledonia are working with the Prince George branch of the Royal Canadian Legion to build and repair a number of flagpoles in preparation for Remembrance Day on Friday.

Staff are recommending the city earmark $50,000 in its capital budget to improve accessibility at two facilities. The Kin Centre and the Elksentre should have motion-activated main entry doors and add more push button openers at Kin interior doors.

Since Prince George launched its housing first program in January, 16 homeless people have found homes but more than 100 still sit on the waitlist.

The city enjoyed a second day of record-setting warmth on Tuesday. The thermometer hit a high of 18.

A local man has won $500,000 playing the Lotto 6/49 Extra. Michael Sonnenberg bought the winning ticket for the Oct. 29 draw at the Real Canadian Superstore Gas Bar in Prince George. "I feel like I'm in a dream," Sonnenberg said in a B.C.

Prince George is now one of four B.C. communities where small businesses can turn to a government-funded pilot program to get help finding customers beyond the province's borders for their wares and services.

A father and son have been charged with attempted murder after a 30-year-old woman escaped a "brutal attack" on a remote logging road late Saturday night, Prince George RCMP said.

Investigators are looking for the public's help in tracking down a man suspected of using bear spray in an early-morning robbery.

A pedestrian appeared to have escaped injury when he was hit by an SUV while crossing Fifth Avenue near Ogilvie Street on Monday evening, according to Prince George RCMP.

Changes are in store for the B.C. Parks Discover Camping reservation service, the provincial government said Monday.