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A pre-Christmas raid on a Pilot Mountain Road property yielded a seizure of $1.5 million worth of marijuana.

BC Hydro will have another year to install the remaining smart meters left in its job jar. The deadline to get the rest in place has been extended to the end of 2013, the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas said Thursday.

Inmates and staff at the Prince George Regional Correctional Centre have gotten into the Christmas spirit. Inmates have knitted some 200 tuques, most of them in time for the Chilli Blanket rally at the courthouse steps in early December.

Year of labour strife punished B.C. schools

Whether it was people eager to spend that Christmas money right away or waiting for a big-ticket item, the malls and stores around Prince George were bustling with Boxing Day activity all day on Wednesday.

Charles Jago certainly didn't ask for the job. That would be like volunteering your own neck to demonstrate a guillotine. In late March, with the B.C.

He won't know for sure until the final deposit is counted late this morning, but Capt. Neil Wilkinson remains optimistic the local Salvation Army kettle campaign will reach its $250,000 goal.

Operation Red Nose provided 230 safe rides home last Friday and Saturday. This was the fourth weekend of the holiday season where a team of volunteers brought local residents and their vehicles home safely between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m.

About 100 local First Nations people gathered at the Prince George courthouse on Friday afternoon to join in a nationwide wave of demonstration to put the federal government on notice that they would be "idle no more.

A young Prince George family has received an early Christmas gift, courtesy of a major Canadian corporation with a penchant for reaching out to the community.