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City council isn't signing off on a grant application until a group of residents have had their say.

OTTAWA - The NDP's finance critic says he will ask a House of Commons committee to study the economic impacts of low oil prices and the weaker Canadian dollar.

A record-setting amount of snow fell on the city Friday. In all, 20 cm descended, edging out the old record for Jan. 30 of 19 cm, set in 1957, according to Environment Canada meteorologist Matthew MacDonald.

Highway 97 near Bellos Road, south of P.G., is closed as a tanker trunk possibly carrying a poisonous and explosive chemical has over turned. A local RCMP member found the truck at about 1:30 p.m.

An on-duty Commercial Vehicle Safety Enforcement peace officer driving a pickup truck died at the scene late-Sunday night in a collision with a commercial transport truck on Highway Five, about 10 km north of Valemount.

Prince George Fire Rescue was called to a fire at an apartment building in the 200 block of N. Ospika Blvd. Monday morning. Called to the scene at 7:53 a.m., they quickly extinguished a small fire on the building's exterior.

Police have recovered the pickup truck stolen from a Blackburn home Monday morning and have arrested two of the six people suspected to be involved in the robbery and attack on the home's occupant.

Glamour and glassware mixed with tresses and tuxedos to woo the betrothed and bystanders alike at the Prince George Civic Centre on Saturday.

Northern Health is one of B.C.'s best bosses, according to an annual competition. The editors of Canada's Top 100 employers, also an annual contest, selected 60 organizations in B.C. to that status.

Hearing a recording of the 911 call made the day 20-year-old Daniel Jordan Levesque died was hard on his family and friends attending the third day of the trial of his accused murderer on Friday. There were tears and hugs in B.C.