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Public transit users will have an extra incentive to head to the polls on Oct. 19. On Monday night, city council voted unanimously to waive transit fare on election day, as they did for the municipal election.

Second degree murder charges have been laid against two people related to a death in Vanderhoof nearly three years ago. Blaine Albert Barfoot, 29, and Tara Lee Ann Williams, 40, were found dead in a Vanderhoof-area mobile home on Jan. 13, 2013.

It will be status quo at Pine Valley golf course for the next five years after a city call out for a new golf course manager didn't yield any fresh blood.

Another group of Hart Highlands residents is moving forward on a long-awaited project to get rid of their aging septic systems and connect to city sanitary sewer lines.

More than a week after a national leadership conference and four Prince George students are still bursting with energy and ideas from the Halifax event.

Location matters when it comes to your smoke alarm. That's the message behind this year's Fire Prevention Week campaign, "Hear the Beep Where You Sleep.

CIBC Run for the Cure, presented by the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation on Oct. 4, saw 313 participants raise $66,745.

Rural Crime Watch and Block Watch will be the focus but they won't be the only topics on the agenda when a trio of public meetings are held over the coming weeks.

A community organizer is still waiting for answers from School District 57 after publicly asking the school board last week why he's been banned from planning diversity events in schools.

The provincial government's announcement last week that B.C.-made wines, beers and spirits can now be sold at artisanal markets comes too late for this year's Studio Fair.