Local News

WorkSafeBC has established a "risk analysis unit" to better predict new trends in workplace hazards following the two fatal northern B.C. sawmill explosions, a coroner's inquest in Prince George heard Tuesday.

Babine Lake First Nation, located in and around Burns Lake, are the first to sign an agreement with the province to benefit from the natural gas pipeline development.

The University of Northern B.C. has reached a tentative five-year agreement with its non-faculty staff, the Ministry of Advanced Education announced Tuesday.

Two men well known to police were arrested and guns and drugs seized last week. The P.G. RCMP's Crime Reduction Team executed a criminal code search warrant at a residence located on Northwood Pulpmill Road.

Police are asking the public to help identify persons responsible for a break-in to the now vacant former Haldi elementary school on Leslie Road in Prince George. The break in occurred on Friday, April 24 at about 8:15 p.m.

WorkSafeBC declined Lakeland Mills' findings into the fatal explosion because the agency had decided to pursue charges against the sawmill's owner, a coroner's inquest heard Monday.

A large forest fire in northern B.C. is growing as firefighters struggle to contain the out-of-control blaze that has forced dozens of people from their homes.

The fight to establish a women's recovery centre at the former Haldi Road elementary school is over.

Church relocation OK'd A local church has been given the go-ahead to move its burgeoning congregation into a former fitness facility.

Less than a week after being threatened by flames, Nancy O's is ready to reopen its doors. Co-owners Garrett Fedorkiw and Eoin Foley announced the popular Third Avenue restaurant will open for lunch today at 11 a.m.