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Prince George city council will hold a regular meeting tonight and Mayor Shari Green said the unusual scheduling has nothing to do with the looming strike by the city's unionized workers.

The current and former Tsilhqot'in National Government tribal chiefs traded barbs Tuesday as the B.C. business community made a push for the proposed New Prosperity copper and gold mine.

A University of Northern British Columbia professor and an associate professor were elected to the Royal Canadian Geographical Society College of Fellows.

Nearly 3,000 customers are without power in the College Heights area and towards Beaverly, according to B.C. Hydro, which aims to have power restored by 6 p.m.

Prince George RCMP's victim services unit has a new breed of caseworker on the roster.

A man wanted for allegedly attacking and seriously injuring three people outside a Prince George nightspot late last week has been apprehended.

Roman Muntener's metal sculpture of tumbling people in the Gateway called Commotion, at the corner of 20th and Victoria, is newly adorned with homemade toques.

It will be business as usual for city operations tomorrow, but that's not likely to last. Though unionized staff were prepared to walk out Thursday, the strike notice issued Dec. 9 was struck down by the B.C. Labour Relations Board.

When diluted bitumen escaped from an Enbridge-owned pipeline in Michigan in 2010, the company quickly realized the tools it had been using to monitor the integrity of its network weren't up to the job.

Operation Red Nose volunteer teams gave 136 rides to P.G. partyers Saturday night, beating out the total number of 131 rides given in its opening 2013 weekend.