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WorkSafeBC has slapped Mackenzie Pulp Mill Corporation with a near $200,000 fine for safety violations in the firm's pulp mill and fibre-handling buildings.

Since the beginning of November, College of New Caledonia president Henry Reiser has signed six separate agreements with colleges and universities in India and the Philippines in hopes of boosting international opportunities for students.

UNBC has signed an agreement with two other universities in the interior that it says will lead to greater research opportunities in the north.

On Monday city council approved a pair of deals aimed at bringing a $37 million underground parkade and condominium complex to the 600 block of George Street downtown.

A man known to the police and courts is in custody facing a count of attempted murder with a firearm after an RCMP emergency response team was called to a home in the VLA on Saturday afternoon.

Two seconds. After 40 minutes of racing Sunday in the IBU Cup biathlon single mixed relay in Obertilliach, Austria, just two ticks of the clock is all that kept Sarah Beaudry of Prince George and Carsen Campbell of Bedeque, P.E.I.

Meryeta O'Dine of Prince George and Zoe Bergermann of Erin, Ont., dug themselves an early Christmas present out of the snowy slopes of Montafon, Austria.

Caledonia Ski Club members entered in relays Sunday in Obertiliach, Austria

Meryeta O'Dine was a finalist once again Saturday on the World Cup snowboardcross tour. The 20-year-old from Prince George emerged from a pack of 43 women on a snowy day in Montafon, Austria and finished eighth overall.

A jury found a former chief of the Fort St. James fire department not guilty of sexually assaulting three female volunteers.