Local News

Prince George RCMP have seized "a vast quantity" of counterfeit goods being sold by a home-run business owner. Cst.

A $24-million expansion of Pacific BioEnergy Corp.'s Prince George wood pellet plant has been added to the provincial government's latest inventory of projects worth more than $15 million.

An AK47 was the weapon fired into a sleeping residential neighbourhood on Tuesday night. The city's 911 line lit up with people who heard or saw the incident at 11:23 p.m. near the intersection of 5th Avenue and Tabor Boulevard.

A motorcycling enthusiast who is using his passion to raise money to combat Crohn's disease and colitis will be passing through Prince George during a trip to and from Hyder, Alaska.

Friends of Prince George Public Library are holding a book sale Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the downtown Bob Harkins branch. Books are priced "buy donation". Donations of books, CDs, sheet music, tapes and records will be gratefully accepted.

Prince George businessman Dan McLaren was named to the B.C. Chamber of Commerce board of directors during its annual general meeting and conference last week.

Prince George journalist, writer and radio host Ben Meisner was among three people appointed to the B.C. Law Society board of governors on Tuesday.

Its Prince George location included, Coast Hotels and Resorts has a new voluntary carbon offset program for guests in place.

Police in Fort St. John are investigating a knife attack that happened Wednesday morning at about 8:30. Public information directed Mounties to 104th Avenue where a man appeared to be severely injured.

Police are now releasing the names of the two people killed in the head-on highway collision near Vanderhoof on Sunday.