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Baldy Hughes Addiction Treatment Centre and Therapeutic Community received an unexpected donation earlier this week courtesy of the North Central Local Government Association. Proceeds of $744.

Local governments will receive twice as much federal gas tax money and get it three months early, Cariboo-Priince George MP Dick Harris said Thursday. The city will get $2.9 million and the regional district will get $657,619.

Latino-Canadian Association of Northern B.C. presents the second annual Latin Festival June 13 at the Hart Community Centre.

It's expected positions will have been found for most of the teachers affected by school closures, Prince George District Teachers Association vice president Matt Pearce said Thursday.

Quesnel is holding its first airshow this weekend. SkyFest 2010, on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

A bike rodeo, barbecue, and buzz off will be part of this year's preliminary launch at Canadian Tire for the ninth annual Cops for Cancer Tour de North .

Prince George RCMP have seized "a vast quantity" of counterfeit goods being sold by a home-run business owner. Cst.

A $24-million expansion of Pacific BioEnergy Corp.'s Prince George wood pellet plant has been added to the provincial government's latest inventory of projects worth more than $15 million.

An AK47 was the weapon fired into a sleeping residential neighbourhood on Tuesday night. The city's 911 line lit up with people who heard or saw the incident at 11:23 p.m. near the intersection of 5th Avenue and Tabor Boulevard.

A motorcycling enthusiast who is using his passion to raise money to combat Crohn's disease and colitis will be passing through Prince George during a trip to and from Hyder, Alaska.