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Gertrude "Trudy" Kurz, seated with her sons Gary and Gunter, turned 100 years old on March 28. Family and friends attended a birthday party for her at the Enat Complex Care Home where she lives. She lived by herself up to the age of 99.

Discover a scientist, then discover what makes them tick. It might ignite your mental Bunsen burners, too.

A free educational series will help Prince George families and caregivers living with the impact of a diagnosis of dementia. Shaping the Journey: living with dementia will be presented by the non-profit Alzheimer Society of B.C.

Four years of contract negotiations may have ended over the Easter weekend for some 8000 employees of the Canadian Border Services Agency, including 200 in northern B.C.

A triad of arts organizations will be joining forces to throw an event that promises to be a yearly highlight in the local arts calendar.

Work has begun on a major expansion of the show lounge at Treasure Cove Casino. Tentatively set for completion in spring 2019, it will triple the lounge's capacity to 600 seats.

British Columbia's major lumber producers continue to book substantial profits on near record lumber prices almost a year after the U.S. Department of Commerce first hit Canadian producers with punishing duties.

Prince George RCMP is putting on a steering wheel lock give-away. It's being held in conjunction with auto crime prevention month and it's for the owners of older-model vehicles without an anti-theft system.

Most people would see the disciplines of design and medicine as two different worlds. Not so for Michiko Maruyama. The graduate of UNBC's Northern Medical Program began her career studying industrial design at the University of Alberta.

During the last poll The Citizen asked "what should be done to improve the homeless situation in Prince George?" "More affordable housing, especially for the working poor" took 48 per cent with 452 votes, while trailing significantly behind was "more