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The B.C. Court of Appeal upheld a lower court decision that found the plaintiff was actually at fault for a wintertime collision in Prince George. Vanessa Harris appealed the decision arguing that B.C.

The city's unemployment rate climbed to 5.5 per cent in March, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers released Friday. That's up from 4.7 per cent in April as the number of people holding down jobs declined by 900 to 49,300.

Prince George flew through the WestJet test period. On Friday, the airline said it would be continuing to offer its daily direct connection to Calgary.

The rain poured in buckets onto Fort George Park on Friday but the kids were doing handstands in the torrent, smearing their face-paint designs into watery abstract art, and rocking their bodies to the live hiphop of aboriginal duo Mob Bounce.

During a hike at the peak of Mount Robson, in charge of a dozen boy scouts, one leader couldn't lift his leg to climb any more.

To reduce the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medication among dementia patients, Northern Health has received $50,000 from the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement to implement programs at four sites in the region.

Forestry practices by the Mackenzie Fibre Management Corporation are going well, except for a couple of points, according to a routine audit of by the BC Forest Practices Board.

City council will pick up where it left off last month in deciding what to do with the in-limbo business licence fee for residential rentals.

The Prince George arm of the B.C. Teachers' Federation wants its members to vote for a full-scale strike.