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The Rotary Club of Prince George is looking for a new location for its annual leadership event after Ness Lake Bible Camp objected to one of its speakers last year.

Treasure Cove Casino can thank bingo players for seeing a slight increase in revenue during the 2015-16 fiscal year, according to a B.C. Lottery Corp. report released this week. The casino took in $55.

Roughly 9,000 customers living north of the Nechako River will be without electricity early Sunday morning. B.C. Hydro will shut off power for seven hours, from 3 a.m. to 10 a.m.

The provincial government has strengthened regulations to ensure that hunters do not use flying drones to help them track wildlife, Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Steve Thomson said Friday.

Construction on a long-awaited hotel on the edge of the city's downtown will resume in earnest, a throng of about 100 people who attended an unveiling of what's now planned for the site next to the Prince George Public Library were told Friday.

The Peace Valley farmer who triggered a series of events that left a man dead outside a Site C dam open house last summer says he hasn't been contacted as part of the investigation into the police-involved shooting of James McIntyre.

Prince George suffered an increase in crime severity last year, according to a Statistics Canada analysis released this week. The city was assigned a score of 149.87, an increase of 17.35 points from 2014.

More than 100 people are expected to converge on the west side of Tabor Mountain this Saturday to celebrate a lengthened and improved mobility trail.

The ever-popular Friends of Thomas Days will be on track at the Central B.C. Railway and Forestry Museum from Friday to Sunday. Each day starts off with a Friends of Thomas pancake breakfast from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and a barbecue from noon to 3 p.m.

Friends of Thomas Friday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day the Railway and Forestry Museum, 850 River Rd., is hosting Friends of Thomas Days with a pancake breakfast from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and a barbecue from noon to 3 p.m.