Local News

Raise a Reader, the annual fundraising campaign for local literacy projects, will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 24, in Prince George.

Police are investigating a drive-by shooting that left a Hart-area home damaged in what is believed to have been a targeted act. At about 9:45 p.m.

The B.C. Ministry of Environment has issued a wildfire smoke advisory for Prince George and six other Central Interior communities. "Avoid strenuous outdoor activities," officials said in the advisory, issued shortly after 11 a.m. today.

MACKENZIE, B.C. - RCMP in Mackenzie, B.C., are investigating what police believe is a suspicious death. Police say a dead person was discovered on a property on the east side of Mackenzie and an investigation was started on Saturday.

There is a new sheriff in town – in fact there are two of them. Two newly trained sheriffs have been assigned to the Prince George, according information released by the B.C. government.

There is still time for residents of the bowl area of the city to take advantage of free spaying or neutering for their cats -but only until the end of August.

A city attempt to get a class-action lawsuit over Prince George's fluoridated water dismissed has been put on hold.

A proposal to create an 85-lot subdivision in the Blackburn neighbourhood has been met with a mixed reaction from neighbours.

What would you do for a deep-fried pickle? Judging by the long lines at Downtown PG's Summerfest on Sunday, the general consensus was: to wait. The Tourism PG Taste Pavilion, featuring samples from 18 restaurants, was bursting at the seams.

A Prince George man took the bait and was arrested Saturday after stealing from a vehicle. Darryl David Basil, 34, was taken into custody by the RCMP after he was caught on video taking items from inside a bait car located downtown.