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Four years of contract negotiations may have ended over the Easter weekend for some 8000 employees of the Canadian Border Services Agency, including 200 in northern B.C.

A triad of arts organizations will be joining forces to throw an event that promises to be a yearly highlight in the local arts calendar.

Work has begun on a major expansion of the show lounge at Treasure Cove Casino. Tentatively set for completion in spring 2019, it will triple the lounge's capacity to 600 seats.

British Columbia's major lumber producers continue to book substantial profits on near record lumber prices almost a year after the U.S. Department of Commerce first hit Canadian producers with punishing duties.

Prince George RCMP is putting on a steering wheel lock give-away. It's being held in conjunction with auto crime prevention month and it's for the owners of older-model vehicles without an anti-theft system.

Most people would see the disciplines of design and medicine as two different worlds. Not so for Michiko Maruyama. The graduate of UNBC's Northern Medical Program began her career studying industrial design at the University of Alberta.

During the last poll The Citizen asked "what should be done to improve the homeless situation in Prince George?" "More affordable housing, especially for the working poor" took 48 per cent with 452 votes, while trailing significantly behind was "more

The Tabor Mountain Ski Resort remained closed this weekend, after staff reported damage to the beleaguered ski hill's water system. The popular destination had been closed for several weekends in March, after remaining open most weekends of February.

"We want our kids to use their minds, give them opportunities to be creative and fail." That pretty much summed up The Exploration Place egg drop challenge for Derrek Beam, father of seven-year-old participant, Tristan.

Smoke coming from the roof of a two storey single family home in the 1700 block of 11 Avenue was reported Saturday at about 4:47 p.m. and saw fire crews attend what they thought was a chimney fire.