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A near across-the-board increase in fees and charges for city services over the next three years is on its way. City council gave three readings Monday night to a bylaw for three-per-cent per year hikes for the next three years.

The deep freeze gripping the city is going to stay for awhile longer. In fact, it's going to get colder before it gets warmer, according to an Environment Canada forecast which sees the daytime high dipping south of -20 C through to Thursday.

A Prince George man faces at least one year in jail for sexually interfering with a minor after a B.C. Supreme Court Justice dismissed a defence counsel challenge of the "mandatory minimum" sentence for the offence.

The 2019 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships are coming to Prince George, it was announced Friday morning.

The financial underpinnings for a new $15-million heavy-mechanical trades-training facility at the College of New Caledonia were unveiled Friday. The federal and provincial governments are each contributing $6.9 million and the college, $1.

A Prince George man was sentenced Thursday to a further month in jail for a series of offences that included leading police on a chase in a stolen car and attacking an inmate at the Prince George Regional Correctional Centre.

A man suspected of committing sexual offences in Prince George 20 years ago has been arrested. Rupert William Burr, 55, was arrested in Fairview, Alberta on Tuesday evening - the same day RCMP issued a call for the public's help to track him down.

Prince George RCMP are on the lookout for a man who failed to appear this week for a trial related to the recovery of a semi-automatic rifle, two live pipe bombs and bomb building materials from an 1100-block Ahbau Street home in November.

RCMP are investigating a drive-by shots fired incident in Quesnel. Police were called to an Allard Street home Thursday at about 5:30 a.m.

The Prince George Aquatic Centre was closed for the day Thursday due to an unexpected electrical issue.