Local News

The City of Prince George's second crack at an economic development committee has come to fruition.

Before there are no voices left to record, a group of high school students are looking to capture the stories of local Canadian Armed Forces veterans.

There are 40 students from Ecole Franco-Nord who are being sponsored through the Eaglet Lake Farmers' Institute in their Young Farmers program.

A B.C. Labour Relations Board mediator is scheduled to meet with the Village of McBride and its unionized employees in Prince George today in an effort to hammer out a collective agreement.

Crown counsel is seeking four years in prison for a woman who operated a drug trafficking operation in Prince George while living in the Lower Mainland, relying on text messages and couriers to do the work in this city.

A Prince George man was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for his role in a home invasion that saw an elderly woman bound and gagged with duct tape.

An image of a masked man who robbed a gas station in the 4200 block of Fifth Avenue on Saturday night has been released. The incident occurred at about 9 p.m. when he entered the business, pulled out a weapon and demanded money and tobacco products.

The call has gone out to all unpublished B.C. seniors who enjoy writing. The second annual Cedric Awards invites seniors to submit their unpublished fiction and creative non-fiction and poetry by May 1 into the competition.

With outstretched hand, a little girl refused a donation of cash but said one word to the woman she was gazing at with hopeful eyes. "Water." Advised to never give her water to anyone Debbie Dow had to turn away from the request.

As Canadian soldiers arrived on European soil during the Second World War, an interesting immigration pattern followed. More than 48,000 European women and their children came into Canada.