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The Prince George Exhibition is heading into its centennial season with an extra spring in its step thanks to a $30,000 bounce from the province, bringing the B.C. government's total contribution to $100,000 for the fair.

Shoppers looking to score a great deal can begin registering Thursday for the return of PG Auctionmart. The online auction, which will feature hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of items up for bid, runs Sept. 7-17. Registration is free at www.

Hadih House had such a positive response to its first buffalo hide scraping event that an encore is already scheduled for Friday.

A Prince George RCMP officer has been assigned full-time to clamping down on domestic violence in the city. Whenever local police are called to a domestic violence complaint - from assaults to threats to breaches of restraining orders - Cpl.

The city enjoyed a warmer than usual July. After a cool and wet start for the first four days, "summer kicked in," Environment Canada meteorologist Jim Steele said in a synopsis for the month.

When School District 57 decided to go green, it set a gold standard for the rest of B.C. And soon the district will have the bronze to prove it.

A Prince George woman is suing School District 57 and the Prince George Minor Football Association after she suffered injuries when she fell down an embankment when entering Masich Place stadium to see a football game nearly four years ago.

The Polar Coachman Fly Fishing Club is on fire - so it's a good thing they are experts on the water. The group recently made their second contribution to area accessibility with the installation of a new dock at Tory Lake.

Cheryl Bowman, 42, of Chetwynd has been identified as the woman who died at the scene of a head-on collision last Thursday on Highway 97 just outside the community, the B.C. Coroners Service said Tuesday.

The Cariboo region lagged behind the rest of the province in dam inspections last year, according to a report released Tuesday by the provincial government.