Local News

A B.C. Supreme Court trial began Monday for a Prince George man accused of not only possessing several stolen firearms but also trying to sell them over the phone while in custody at the Prince George Regional Correctional Centre.

When current UNBC president George Iwama steps down at the end of the year, a current vice president will step up to take his place. The school's Board of Governors appointed Mark Dale as interim president of UNBC, effective Jan. 1, 2014.

Sports Hall of Famer Boyd Bayne got tricked on Halloween and his free-wheeling treat is still missing. Bayne, best known in the community for his 20 years as a coach of champions at the Spruce Capital Boxing Club, got his truck stolen Oct.

Kevin Ebra is nearing the end of his epic 6,700 kilometre inline skating trip across the country, but he still has a long way to go in his goal of raising money for the Childhood Cancer Canada Foundation.

As the interested parties continue to digest the environmental assessment for Taseko's proposed New Prosperity open pit copper and gold mine, the attention is beginning to shift to federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq.

Women in northern B.C. are less likely to seek out breast cancer screening than women in the rest of the province but the tide is beginning to turn, according to Dr. Christine Wilson, medical director of the provincial mammogram screening program.

The city is tinkering further with their alcohol policy after the trial program at CN Centre proved fruitful.

More than 2,500 tickets remain to be sold with a bit more than one week left in the Prince George Hospice Society 2013 Dream Home Lottery.

Prince George fire halls are going to become more female friendly. Among the projects slated to be approved for funding in the city's 2014 budget is the installation of female washrooms in three of the city's four fire halls.

A 2.5 per cent budget increase isn't looking too likely for Initiatives Prince George, based on the response the request received from a council committee.