Local News

The 10th annual Evening of Pink will be held Saturday at the Prince George Civic Centre.

Construction began on nine new homes in Prince George and area last month, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

The Prince George Farmers' Market, Nancy O's Restaurant and Terri McClymont are the local winners of the We Heart Local Awards, presented by the B.C. Agriculture Council.

There's still time to enter the BC SPCA's sixth annual Wildlife-In-Focus photography contest. All amateur photographers aged 14 and up are invited to enter the competition by sending their best of B.C. wildlife photographs by Sept. 30.

A walk will be held in Prince George as part of International Peace Day. Set for Sunday, it starts at 11 a.m.

B.C. Attorney General Suzanne Anton is disputing a claim that the Highway of Tears investigation has been gutted. "There was no reduction in 2012/13 for investigations into missing women, as reported in the media," Anton said in a statement.

The 2015 Canada Winter Games team has parted ways with the man in charge of pulling in funds for the two-week event. As of last Friday, Todd Doherty was no longer the 2015 Games' director of revenue generation.

The school district is waiting for the proposed contract with teachers to be ratified before letting parents know when schools will reopen. Teachers are to vote today on whether to approve the latest offer from the provincial government.

A group of provincial politicians are converging on the city tonight, gathering feedback on the 2015 budget.

There are no current plans to replace the recently removed picnic shelters at Fort George Park. The shelters were installed in the early 1980s, said public works director Bill Gaal, and had "reached the end of their useful life.