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A $5,000 donation by TD Waterhouse will allow the Child Development Centre to continue to run its specialized programs without increase costs to users.

A trio of Prince George RCMP members have been formally acknowledged for successfully talking a suicidal person off the John Hart Bridge nearlytwo years ago. On Dec. 21, 2010, Cpl. Todd Wilson, Cst. Lee Bellamy and Cst.

Six B.C. Corrections staff based in Prince George have received long service bars from the province's Lieutenant Governor .

Community Policing coordinator Linda Parker is among the first to dispute assertions that Prince George is "Canada's most dangerous city," but that doesn't mean she won't welcome volunteers to help out with various crime reduction initiatives.

The region's highly publicized skills shortage is, according to government and industry, holding back economic growth in northern B.C.

Twin brothers have been sentenced for an assault and robbery at a Salmon Valley home in June. Kirk Arthur Clark was sentenced to two years less a day and two years probation for robbery and to one day in jail for assault with a weapon.

The long arm of the law in B.C. has been extended with Saturday's announcement the province has hired 13 new deputy sheriffs. One of them will be coming to work in Prince George.

For the first time in her life, Charlyne Prince was wearing makeup on her face and her 11-year-old granddaughter, Tanisha George, was not impressed. "She wanted me to wash it off, she's not used to it," said a smiling Prince.

The traveling road show that is the National Energy Board hearings into the proposed Northern Gateway project makes it first of many stops in Prince Rupert on Monday. Before the Joint Review Panel (JRP) wraps up for its Christmas break on Dec.

Prince George not only remains in the top spot in this year's editions of Maclean's crime rankings but the city also figures prominently in seven categories according to a posting on the magazine's website.