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Jessica Aldred has been hired as the new CEO of the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation. Aldred is replacing Don Gowan who resigned from the position in June.

Heather Park plementary has been a flurry of beginning-of-the-year activities. Little Shippy is a wonderful addition to our fenced-in play area for our youngest students. Thank you, PAC. Author Eric Walters visited on Sept.

The Prince George RCMP are asking anyone who may have seen a suspicious vehicle or erratic driving in the vicinity and about the time of last week's daytime shooting to step forward.

The night sky will light up again for Canada during the city's official July 1 celebrations.

The family of Greg Matters will hold a funeral on Friday to honour his life. Matters was killed Sept. 10 after a 30-hour standoff with RCMP in Pineview.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Glen Parrett continued to take police to task Tuesday for a "less than ideal investigation" as he found Patrick Mathewsie not guilty of manslaughter in the July 2010 death of Sylvain Victor Roy.

A sex education class in McBride last week has one mother upset about the content of the course and how the information is presented.

The youngest of two women alleging years of sexual abuse at the hands of their stepfather told the court Tuesday she simply never felt safe enough to tell anyone until she broke the news to her mother nearly a year after she had left the home.

Conrad Boyes owes his life to his semi-automatic rifle. He used it to fire off two quick .30-calibre rounds that hit a charging grizzly bear at close range, fatally wounding the animal, but not before it mauled him.

A pilot project to develop a secondary alternate report card was presented and approved by School District 57 trustees at Tuesday's public board meeting.