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Recycling service throughout the area will continue for at least another year. Regional District of Fraser-Fort George board members voted unanimously Thursday to extend their contract with Cascades Recovery through the end of next May.

The provincial government's River Forecast Centre is predicting runoff into the Fraser River to reach 127 per cent of normal at Shelley as a result of a significantly higher-than-normal snowpack in the Upper Fraser watershed.

UNBC will be hosting two conferences on the Arctic next week. The University of the Arctic annual council meeting will run Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by the International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences from May 22-26.

Firefighters took on a blaze at a building near the Prince George Regional Correctional Centre Thursday. Few details were available. Reports say the building may have housed an impromptu skateboard park. A commercial real estate website lists a 21.

A man who was caught on camera stealing a wall-mounted heater from a local recycling depot has been sentenced to 15 months probation.

Considering the amount of the province it covers, the North Central Local Government Association needs to have a bigger influence on the provincial government, according a local councillor. During last week's NCLGA annual general meeting in Fort St.

The Huble Homestead has been laying in winter stasis but this weekend it comes out of hibernation.

Twenty-two students in the School District 57 career programs apprenticeship program have earned $1,000 scholarships, school board trustees were told Tuesday night.

Andrew Watters was so successful in his German language studies that Germany called him over for a visit. Watters, 16, is the winner of the German government's annual contest in B.C.

The provincial government has awarded a $3.7-million contract to AWA Asphalt Ltd. of Vernon for resurfacing projects scheduled to begin this summer in the Prince George area.