Local News

One of the biggest events on B.C.'s aboriginal calendar is coming to Prince George. The Lheidli T'enneh First Nation has won its bid to host the 2013 Annual B.C. Elders Gathering.

As UNBC's first longterm writer-in-residence, Maggie de Vries did not need a roadmap to find her new office on the Cranbrook Hill campus. She has already established a link with north central B.C.

Renata King has been home for a little more than a week. But when anyone mentions London, she still gets the chills. King was in the historic English city for the recent Summer Olympic Games.

The body of Ralph Der, a 59-year-old Prince George man who fell into Carp Lake two Sundays ago, has been recovered.

While the Prince George Farmers' Market digests the news of their new downtown home, the crew behind the university market is also working to define a sense of place.

Witness recounts bull's rodeo injury

Don Zurowski is now part of the governance team of the BC Pavilion Corporation (PavCo). The former Prince George city councillor and retired businessman is the only northerner on the 11-member board.

A cougar was seen roaming the lower College Heights area on Wednesday evening at roughly the same time a big cat attacked a seven-year-old boy near Port Alberni on Vancouver Island.

Legal consumption of alcohol and going to a disco with a bunch of girls her own age were foreign concepts to Jackie Toombs when she arrived in Emden, Germany, last month as part of a Rotary Club exchange.

There are more trees in the forest than thought and those extras will help local sawmills get through the industry downturn brought on by the mountain pine beetle epidemic, a government committee says.