Local News

Those who want to go from ego-based ambition to deeper meaning and purpose in life should watch the film called The Shift by Dr. Wayne Dyer. The YES Alliance is bringing it to UNBC Canfor Theatre at 7 p.m. Friday.

It was a courageous Grade 3 student who created Epilepsy Day and convinced her school to wear purple to support the cause.

Considered by many to be one of the significant Canadian authors of our time, Denise Chong, author of the bestseller, The Concubine's Children, visited Books and Company Monday with her new book Egg on Mao.

B.C. Coastal First Nations declared today - on the 21st anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill - their unified opposition to the proposed $4.5-billion Enbridge pipeline.

A local agent is about to take over from Prince George's Legal Services Society office.

Quesnel RCMP have recovered several $100 counterfeit bills from various businesses which all have the same serial number of EJE9791896.

A number of students from the first 2004 class at UNBC's Northern Medical Program are about to complete their two-year residency training as family doctors.

Prince George RCMP have identified the second body found in the case of a double homicide as 45-year-old Darren Hala. His home address remains unknown.

A woman was sexually assaulted at about 3:45 a.m. Sunday morning in the Beaverley area west of Prince George. The suspect is a caucasian male between the ages of 26 and 30 years, about 5 foot 10 inches tall with a medium build and a bit of a paunch.

When Fraser Lake RCMP recently checked a vehicle on Highway 16 West for a driving infraction, the officer detected the odor of marijuana wafting from the vehicle and placed the driver under arrest. A vehicle search disclosed two pounds of marijuana.