Local News

Don Lucas was dogsitting for his daughter on Vancouver Island when he got the call. The 54-year-old chip truck driver from Mackenzie had his ticket drawn Thursday night as the grand prize winner of the Prince George Spruce Kings Show Home Lottery.

Prince George Council of Seniors manager Lola-Dawn Fennell knew her days behind the wheel were numbered when she was driving through downtown Kelowna one winter evening and realized she couldn't tell the colour of the traffic light ahead of her.

The city's largest forestry garden is celebrating its silver anniversary.

Intersections are a prime spot for collisions, according to the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia.

A wish that's been 20 years in the making has finally come true. The Canadian Mental Health Association's Prince George branch has moved to 1152 Third Ave., a space twice the size of its old office at 555 George St.

Recycling service throughout the area will continue for at least another year. Regional District of Fraser-Fort George board members voted unanimously Thursday to extend their contract with Cascades Recovery through the end of next May.

The provincial government's River Forecast Centre is predicting runoff into the Fraser River to reach 127 per cent of normal at Shelley as a result of a significantly higher-than-normal snowpack in the Upper Fraser watershed.

UNBC will be hosting two conferences on the Arctic next week. The University of the Arctic annual council meeting will run Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by the International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences from May 22-26.

Firefighters took on a blaze at a building near the Prince George Regional Correctional Centre Thursday. Few details were available. Reports say the building may have housed an impromptu skateboard park. A commercial real estate website lists a 21.

A man who was caught on camera stealing a wall-mounted heater from a local recycling depot has been sentenced to 15 months probation.