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Police are recommending arson charges after a 43-year-old man set fire to his cell at the Prince George RCMP detachment. RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass said the man, who was in the cell alone, used a lighter to start the Sunday morning fire.

Carrier Sekani Tribal Council chief Terry Teegee won another three-year term Friday. Teegee, in his first bid for re-election, garnered 371 votes, good for 56 per cent of the 662 ballots cast for tribal chief in nine polling stations across the area.

A cross-country search for the suspect in the armed robbery of a New Brunswick credit union ended Friday afternoon at a Prince George residence, police said Saturday. RCMP Cpl.

Local real estate agents saw slight increases in both the average price and the number of single-family homes sold during the first half of the year.

Tickets for country music legend Shania Twain's show at CN Centre have not sold out quite yet. As of late Friday afternoon, there were "not many left" according to the Ticketmaster website.

Proponents of a pipeline that would carry natural gas from a pumping station north of Prince George to a liquified natural gas plant in Kitimat are treading carefully as a members of a First Nations community opposed to the project are once again mak

Prince George is making inroads to aligning itself with another Chinese city. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed Friday at city hall with representatives from the visiting Suzhou City, from Anhui Province, China.

Northern FanCon is honouring the tradition of pop-culture conventions with the first announcement of a celebrity special guest coming here next year.

Prince George RCMP arrested a New Brunswick man wanted for armed robbery Friday afternoon. According to police, Ronald Albert Canuel, 26, was taken into custody at 4 p.m. without incident.