Local News

By the time the second week of spring break comes around parents and children might be searching for a little quiet time. The Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society presents Celebrating Peace with Meditation on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m.

Heather Lamb, vice-chair of the Northern Branch of the BC Association of Social Workers, is this year's recipient of the Bridget Moran Advancement of Social Work in Northern Communities Award.

After months of back-and-forth with the owner of an unsafe, dilapidated trailer considered "offensive to the community," staff are asking city council to force Attila Homes Ltd.

According to Minister John Rustad, 75 per cent of First Nations residents do not live on a reserve and many don't live on their traditional territory.

A Prince George man spent a long night in his pickup truck after it became stuck when he went out Wednesday evening to set up a trail camera in the Blackwater Road area southwest of Prince George.

The burden of owning a single-family house in Prince George continues to remain well below the level seen in Vancouver and area, according to an annual report released this week by the B.C. Northern Real Estate Board.

Qia Gunster is one step closer to being Canadian. The 20-year-old Prince George man has lived in B.C. since he was a baby, but has never been recognized by his country.

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man and a woman who died in a motor vehicle related incident near Tete Jaune Cache on Wednesday. They are Karmen Anne McGee, 25, of New Westminster, and Bruce Donald Sykes, 64, of Vernon.

The Citizen's managing editor is up for one of Canada's most prestigious newspaper awards.