Local News

The pace of construction for new houses in the city is starting to pick up. There were starts on 26 single-family homes last month, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, more than double the 12 seen during May 2016.

Prince George RCMP are asking for the public's help to track down a man suspected of carrying out a home-invasion style-robbery early Wednesday morning.

Severe thunderstorms could roll through Prince George and area this afternoon, according to Environment Canada. "A low pressure system will move onto B.C. interior this afternoon bringing unsettled weather conditions," the agency says in an alert.

Mayor Lyn Hall will ask city council to rescind bylaws related to B.C. Transit's controversial plan to build an operations and maintenance facility at 18th Avenue and Foothills Boulevard prior to holding a public hearing on the matter.

Her father fiddled, her sister fiddled and then finally Beth Bressette fiddled at nearly 60 years old. Bressette has been a volunteer and member of the B.C. Old Time Fiddlers Association for more than 25 years.

UNBC's Community Development Institute was officially opened in Fort St. John Wednesday morning with a ribbon cutting ceremony.

A local resident of Prince George who's volunteered in the community for more than 18 years is the recipient of the Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers.

Born and raised in Prince George, Joshua Tyler Bredo had a dark past even before his latest act of committing manslaughter. He was sentenced Tuesday in Victoria to a nine-year sentence after killing Daniel Levesque in an apartment in Aug. 3, 2011.

There's a new executive director at the Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society of Prince George (IMSS), after long-serving Baljit Sethi was forced to retire as of March 31. Ravi Saxena started as executive director on Monday.

Crews are making progress on a forest fire near Quesnel. As of noon Wednesday, the 168-hectare blaze five kilometres south of Pantage Lake was 55-per-cent contained and had not grown significantly in the previous 24 hours, the B.C.