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The city has closed the island in Cottonwood Island Nature Park due to rising water from the Nechako River.

With a CANDO attitude Handy Circle offers those with special needs and disabilities an opportunity to have a bunch of fun Saturday at the Prince George Conference and Civic Centre.

The Exploration Place has had a big year, and it's about to get bigger. First they won the B.C. Museum Association's Award of Merit - Exhibitions, then followed that up with the Governor General's History Award.

Two First Nations say a tentative treaty agreement between the Lheidli T'enneh and the federal and provincial governments would encroach upon their traditional territory.

The city's wastewater treatment foreman has some simple advice for what and what should not be go down your toilet.

The terms "wastewater" and "scenic tour" don't usually go hand in hand but there will be an exception later this week when the city offers free tours of a unique system for dealing with a portion of what goes down the city's sinks and toilets.

An emergency provision that reportedly has been invoked by UNBC president Daniel Weeks to relieve five UNBC faculty members of their duties over the last year and a half is a measure employed in only rare circumstances, according to faculty union sta

Officials with the B.C. River Forecast Centre say that unusually fast snowpack melts, coupled with expected rainfall later in the week, could raise flood risks for the upper fraser region.

Opening day for most of the city's sports fields and ball diamonds will be this Friday. The move, announced Monday, comes after an assessment of their conditions by city parks department workers.

Two Prince George residents were presented with community champion awards of merit on Friday evening for their contributions during the Cariboo wildfires last summer.