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The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal will hear a complaint alleging health care providers are discriminating against aboriginal residents in the Hazelton area by failing to provide an equitable level of service at the community's hospital. The B.C.

Permits for $116.3 million worth of construction were taken out over 2013 in Prince George, according to a report from city hall. Those numbers were the fourth highest seen in the past decade.

Nobody wants to be poor, nobody wants to be sick, and nobody wants to be addicted to drugs, said Councilor Albert Koehler, during the Livin' in the VLA event Friday afternoon.

A B.C. Supreme Court Justice has dismissed a Cluculz Lake cabin owner's lawsuit against the company hired to install a septic system in part because he dismantled the system before it was ever tested.

This week provided a rare opportunity for area resident with accessibility issues to bring their concerns to those who can actually affect some sort of change. "Quite often we don't really get a chance to get out beyond the Lower Mainland.

Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Nathan Cullen is pleased the BC Coroners Service's will investigate the fatal 2012 explosion at Babine Forest Products, but he's concerned that the agency may not be able to accomplish all that it hopes to achieve.

Genetically modified organisms have become a hot button topic in recent years and a panel discussion in Prince George next week aims to demystify the issue.

Federal Court judges hold the keys to how the next step in the ongoing Northern Gateway pipeline saga will play out and some of their decisions could come quickly, according to one legal expert.

Construction of the new hospital in Burns Lake is moving indoors with the completion of the walls and roof of the new facility.

Longtime Prince George firefighter John Iverson has been promoted to chief, city hall said in a statement issued Friday. Iverson joined what is now Prince George Fire Rescue in April 1987, starting out as a firefighter.