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With four to five centimetres of snow already on the ground and another 10 centimetres expected to fall Friday evening, fire crews battling the Siphon Creek and Beatton Airport Road wildfires are getting a well-deserved break. And so are residents.

Simmering tensions between B.C. and Quebec, and between large and small Canadian lumber producers, will frame formal Canada-U. S. negotiations to take place in Ottawa next week.

If you're going camping this long weekend, be prepared for everything. That's the advice from Environment Canada meteorologist Lisa Coldwell in response to the forecast for the next three days.

A charge of kidnapping against a man who allegedly abducted a 50-year-old woman from University Hospital of Northern British Columbia was stayed Thursday during an appearance in Prince George provincial court.

The B.C. Court of Appeal issued its reasons Friday for its February decision to deny a request to overturn a B.C.

The University of Northern British Columbia Board of Governors approved a balanced $75.7 million operating budget for 2016-17 on Friday. The board approved a number of actions to balance the budget: - A two-per-cent tuition fee increase.

More than 2,500 College Heights homes and businesses were without power after a vehicle collided with a power pole at Domano Boulevard and St. Lawrence Avenue just a minute after midnight Friday. By about 4 a.m. a B.C.

It's a growing tradition. The David Douglas Botanical Garden Society hosts its annual plant sale at UNBC on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Teck, the coal and copper mining giant, is responsible for nearly 60 per cent of the $1.2-billion in underfunding for the cleanup of mines when they close in B.C., according to figures obtained by The Vancouver Sun. B.C.

A $1.9 million project to replace the boiler and thermal heating system at Nusdeh Yoh elementary school will go ahead, the provincial government said Thursday.