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The New Democrats have convinced the B.C. Liberal government to retain provisions to protect individual workers in the Woodworkers Lien Act. The act was to be repealed as part of a new act to provide payment protection to logging contractors.

It is hard to fathom which is the larger force of nature, the Goodsir Nature Park or the man who built it. Jim Good is not a botanist, according to the university degrees he doesn't have.

The Guru Nankak Darbar Society invites Prince George residents to join the Sikh community to celebrate Vaisakhi on Saturday with a Nagar Kirtan-Vaisakhi Parade, displays and food booths. The parade begins at 10 a.m.

The lack of late-season snowpack in the Upper Fraser basin is translating into a mixed blessing down river in Prince George.

The B.C. Ministry of Environment has set up a system where they will test for formaldehyde, and other air-borne chemicals, in the middle of the night if they get word of a particularly poor air episode.

A sledgehammer struck the side of the vacant building with a dull smack. A puff of stucco and the crumbs of old Prince George wafted out onto the sidewalk.

The Northern Orchestra takes a different approach when it comes to presenting classical music.

He got the part on the pilot of a television series and now the former Prince George resident will be seen as a regular on Blackstone that begins shooting in Edmonton in July for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

There are 15 Prince George performers at the Performing Arts B.C. provincial competition in Duncan, B.C.

A majority of British Columbians support a crude oil tanker ban for B.C. Coastal waters, show the results of a Mustel survey commissioned by the environmental group ForestEthics.