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A group of Tim Hortons workers, line cooks and cafeteria workers at UNBC joined with supporters to stage a campus rally Wednesday that ended with an impromptu sit-in in the office of the university president Daniel Weeks.

A Geoscience BC helicopter flew all the way around the world to uncover mineral data for northern B.C., and they never left the local forest to do so.

The Citizen Extra will be a day late this week. Normally, the Extra is available in the Thursday edition of The Citizen to home and digital subscribers, as well as to non-subscribers through home delivery and neighbourhood boxes Thursday.

The city enjoyed a solid year on the construction front, a count of building permits is indicating. Permits for $116.8 million worth of construction were taken out in 2017, according to a report from city staff. Although well down from $128.

Prince George RCMP Cst. Dong Kwak and the detachment's A Watch were named the 2017 officer and general duty watch of the year by Prince George Crime Stoppers Society on Tuesday.

RCMP in Fort St. John are looking for local teens who may have been the victims of "sextortion.

At a council meeting on Monday night, city staff recommended the decommissioning of an ammonia plant that services the ice skating rink in Canada Games Plaza.

A Prince George man has pleaded guilty to attempted murder Robyn Glenn Derksen entered the plea Tuesday during a brief hearing at the courthouse in relation to an October 4, 2015 incident in which he lured a woman to his home.

Prince George will soon be home to a First Nations court. An opening ceremony will be held on March 23, the B.C. Provincial Court confirmed this week, while the court is to start hearing cases in the first week of April.

City councillors heard on Monday night that the majority of city-owned baseball and sports facilities, which are run by exclusive use agreements, are underutilized and in poor condition.