Local News

Members of city council are heading down to Whistler next week for the final Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) conference of the current local government term.

Hundreds of families attended the city's first Mini Maker Faire at the Civic Centre Plaza on Saturday. The event, hosted by Two Rivers Gallery, featured live music, artist demonstrations and hands-on science and art activities for all ages.

Walk into the Spruce Kings lottery show home and the first thing one notices is the afternoon sun streaming into the great room. It's enhanced by the west-facing views that overlook the seventh tee at Aberdeen Glen Golf Course.

A Prince George man was sentenced to three years probation with a suspended sentence for cutting a former friend with a knife during an altercation in a local low-rent hotel.

A group of VLA residents have formed a non-profit society aimed at making the neighbourhood with a long-held reputation for drugs and crime a more desirable place to live.

Legal wrangling between the BID Group of Companies and Commonwealth Campus Corp. is continuing over a land deal gone wrong regarding property adjacent to the Wood Innovation and Design Centre, nearing completion at Fourth and George Street downtown.

The hotel and condominium development slated for land adjacent to the Prince George Public Library remains dormant but is not dead, according to the project's main proponent.

The last time Victoria Towers was open for business, it was well below zero and people were fleeing for their lives into the November morning while ice-caked firefighters rushed inside.

Diabetes takes your life one piece at a time, said David DeVore, a retired teacher and education administrator who was diagnosed on his 55th birthday.

With ratification of the teachers contract, schools will reopen to students for a 90-minute session on Monday followed by a full day of classes on Tuesday, the school district said Friday afternoon.