Local News

In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report issued Tuesday, a local MP said he's going to be watching the government's approach to addressing the issues raised by the residential school review.

The City of Prince George will be registering its dissatisfaction about the state of the Ministry of Children and Family Development.

The holidays are a good time to pay special attention to mental health and the ways to ward off seasonal blues. To start consider a key question, said a Northern Health clinical educator.

Responsibility for aboriginal youth in care should be turned over to First Nations social agencies as part of any overhaul of the Ministry of Children and Families, says Carrier Sekani Family Services executive director Mary Teegee.

Two men were sentenced Monday for their roles in a botched home invasion in which one of the perpetrators got more than she bargained for.

Operation Red Nose volunteers delivered 260 safe rides home in Prince George on the weekend. On Friday, 74 volunteers, including 23 road teams, provided 97 rides, travelling 3,092 kilometres.

A 48-year-old Prince George man was arrested and a "significant amount" of heroin and crack cocaine were seized from a 2100-block Tamarack Street home on Monday night, Prince George RCMP said.

A Prince George man has been arrested following a Monday night drug bust in the VLA. Around 8 p.m., Prince George RCMP carried out a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrant on a house in the 2100 block of Tamarack Street.

An electric space heater is believed to be the cause of a fire that broke out Tuesday morning in a mobile at the Lombardy Trailer Park on Norwood Street.

The College of New Caledonia and a new childcare society have signed a five-year lease agreement for the centre, located on the Prince George campus.