Local News

A former Prince George man who pleaded guilty to possessing heroin for the purpose of trafficking has taken enough steps to turn his life around that he has avoided time in jail.

The elders of the city have gotten honorary citizenship in the town of Whoville. It happened over the weekend and was discovered Monday morning by MLA Shirley Bond and her staff.

A B.C. Supreme Court justice found Teresa Marie Charlie guilty Monday of accessory after the fact to murder in the January 2012 death of Fribjon Bjornson on the Nakazdli reserve adjacent to Fort St. James.

The resignations of three McBride councillors, which left the village run by the two remaining community representatives, has "astronomical impacts," McBride's mayor said.

The city's unemployment rate stood at 6.5 per cent in November, according to Statistics Canada labour market survey numbers issued Friday - unchanged both year-over-year and month-over-month.

British Columbians interested in cutting their own Christmas tree should obtain their permit online or contact their local forest district or FrontCounter BC office, the provincial government said this week.

Volunteer fire departments are scrambling to determine where they stand in relation to new training standards the B.C. Fire Commissioner has brought into play.

Canadian Forest Products Ltd. has failed to convince a B.C. Supreme Court Justice it deserves a break on stumpage for timber it had been harvesting in the vicinity of Williston Lake.

A Prince George RCMP officer used naloxone early Friday morning to bring a 28-year-old man back to life after he had overdosed on an opiate. Emergency personnel were called to a Chief Lake Road home just after 5 a.m.

RCMP are continuing to ask drivers to use extra caution as winter sets in after responding to a trio of serious collisions over Wednesday and Thursday.