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There's a gas leak downtown behind the Homework store at 1299 Third Avenue. Access to the area is blocked between Quebec and Dominion on Third and Fourth Avenues. No one is allowed access to those buildings until the leak is under control.

Two individuals are continuing a fight for standing in an appeal of an air emissions permit for Rio Tinto's $3.3-billion smelter project in northwest B.C.

The Prince George Costco raised $65,474 for healthcare in the north. In May, Costco's Campaign for Kids raised $38,444.

Cody Allan Legebokoff said he was "involved" in the deaths of the three women for which he had been charged with murder but did not carry out the actual killings, the court heard Monday when he testified in his defence at the Prince George courthouse

Citizens on Patrol played an instrumental role in tracking down a man suspected of harassing a woman on Friday night. At about 10:25 p.m.

Prince George will be among the stops in September when an all-party committee tours the province to hear how the public thinks their tax dollars should be spent. The committee will hold a hearing at the Ramada, from 4 to 8 p.m.

When people hear the word arthritis, most think of slow moving seniors with aching joints. And then there's Evan Warren, who's endured arthritis for more than half his life. He's five years old.

A Vanderhoof teacher wants to be the Conservative candidate in Cariboo-Prince George when the next federal election is called.

Bill Glasgow, business coordinator at the Salvation Army, Sonya Hunt, general manager of Pine Centre Mall, stand with Cameron Thun who donated $10,000 to the Salvation Army's Back to School back pack program to help children in need.

Prince George RCMP are hoping that by putting in for more officers on paper, they'll be able to staff the local detachment to its current budgeted level.