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A Blackburn woman who struck and killed a man and seriously injured another as they were crossing First Avenue two years ago was fined $1,600 Tuesday after pleading guilty to excessive speeding relative to conditions under the Motor Vehicle Act.

Other than some calls for minor tweaking, B.C. Transit's plan for service along Highway 16 West drew little criticism during the month-long public consultation process this summer, according to a summary of the comments received.

Since 1997 Joan Zwiers has been volunteering at the Prince George Hospice Society where she has logged more than 2,000 volunteer hours. Zwiers, now 75 years old, still volunteers as the Monday morning greeter at Rotary Hospice House.

The Highway Of Tears has been northern B.C.'s reality for decades, and the systemic victimization of aboriginal people has been our reality for more than 100 years.

The first of five Talktober sessions kicks off in College Heights Wednesday night. Built in the same vision as last year's inaugural talks, Mayor Lyn Hall said it's all about reconnecting council to the community.

In the seven years since it was founded, R U OK? has become a national phenomenon in Australia.

Six community members gathered for a small dinner party recently and as conversation crested it was discovered that three were battling cancer. All of them were women.

The building Patrick Stewart designed on Seabird Island is more than 20 years old, but the architect still points to it as a favourite example of using place-based knowledge to inform indigenous design.

The federal government's latest initiatives to cool overheated real estate markets are drawing a mixed review from a local mortgage broker.

A team of Transportation Safety Board investigators has been sent to gather evidence from the scene a fatal plane crash about 160 kilometres southwest of Prince George.