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Healthy eating essential for seniors

Healthy eating essential for seniors

Eating healthy at any age can be as simple as following Canada's Food Guide. Because seniors may have some health issues that need special attention, what's put into the body can be quite essential to attaining and maintaining good health.
Crown seeks lengthy sentence for kidnapper

Crown seeks lengthy sentence for kidnapper

Crown counsel is seeking 12 years in prison for a Prince George man convicted of helping to kidnap, extort and beat up a 79-year-old man.
TV theft leads to arrest in school parking lot

TV theft leads to arrest in school parking lot

A 27-year-old Prince George man is in custody after allegedly pulling an edged weapon on staff who were attempting to stop him from fleeing a big box store in the Westgate shopping centre with a television on Monday afternoon.
Man killed in head-on crash

Man killed in head-on crash

Police are blaming excessive speed for winter road conditions as the cause of a fatal head-on accident on Highway 97 which claimed the life of 53-year-old man Sunday morning north of the Salmon Valley bridge.
Forest tech suspended for failing to disclose conviction

Forest tech suspended for failing to disclose conviction

The Association of B.C. Forest Professionals has suspended one of its members for two months because he failed to disclose a criminal conviction.
Zatorski opens aboriginal speakers series

Zatorski opens aboriginal speakers series

A member of the Lheidli T'enneh Nation will be the first to take the podium as an aboriginal alumni speaker series begins Monday at the University of Northern British Columbia.
Dog sled mail run heading to Barkerville

Dog sled mail run heading to Barkerville

The last leg of the 24th annual Gold Rush Dog Sled Mail Run goes Sunday. Once a qualifier for the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod races, it's now more about participation than who can do it the fastest.
Hospital hosting Men’s Health Day

Hospital hosting Men’s Health Day

A Prince George man walks into a room. No, it's not the beginning of a silly joke. It's the start of Men's Health Day this Saturday at the University Hospital of Northern B.C.
Visit smaller communities, minister hears

Visit smaller communities, minister hears

The public inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women will need to go to rural and isolated communities when it gets going later this year.

CNC projects $1M budget surplus

Thanks to an unexpected spike in student enrolment, the College of New Caledonia is projecting a budget surplus of $1 million at their fiscal year end of March 31.