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A Prince George student has won the local university's largest donor-funded entrance scholarship. The University of Northern B.C. handed Lisa Russell the Helen Thurwell Scholarship, worth $25,000.

Banners will once again be flying over downtown sidewalks and promenades. This year, they will be new, made of better material and reflect the Downtown Prince George graphic design pattern that evolved from the 2015 Canada Winter Games.

Search and rescue crews have recovered the body of a man believed to have drowned during a fishing trip on Arthur Lake near Finger Lake, south of Vanderhoof.

As B.C. lags behind other provinces to produce homegrown physical therapists, northerners have been calling for more student spots as the region suffers from an acute shortage in care .

Before the pain in her knee started, Christina Conrad was like any other kid in a northern B.C. town. She played in the forest near her parent's large Fort Nelson property, she biked with her brother, she lived an active life.

Environment Canada has ended a warning for severe thunderstorms in Prince George. The warning, which was in place for most of Friday, was called down shortly after 5 p.m.

Prince George RCMP will be at Otway this weekend offering to register bikes onto a online theft-prevention program. They'll be onsite from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

A Prince George man was sentenced to a further two years and 11 months in prison for an "extremely disturbing" and "extremely violent" sexual assault on an elderly woman.

The city's unemployment rate stood at 7.7 per cent in July, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers released Friday. The figure is down slight from 7.8 per cent for the same month last year.

A section of Highway 16 West was closed for about 2 /12 hours early Friday morning after a tractor trailer struck a telephone pole near Gauthier Road.