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Patients, former MP defend doctor bending rules

A Prince George man has been sentenced to 23 months of house arrest for possession of methamphetamine and crack cocaine for the purpose of trafficking as part of an "ill conceived" attempt to make money when he fell on hard times.

Police cordoned off a stretch of residential street early Friday afternoon and Fortis sent in a crew to deal with a natural gas pipe that had been struck when heavy equipment was operating in the area.

Four local groups have received community gaming grants from the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development.

A Prince George bankruptcy trustee is seeking more than $500,000 from the son of one of the operators of a failed money-lending company than ran in Burns Lake before it was shut down by financial regulators.

An RCMP bomb squad was sent into the VLA on Friday morning to deal with what appeared to be a pipe bomb that had been left in a driveway.

A Prince George man was found not guilty Thursday of sexually assaulting his granddaughter after the judge found inconsistencies in the girl's testimony were enough to raise reasonable doubt that he committed the acts. B.C.

With public hearings coming up in a few days, Enbridge made its Northern Gateway Pipeline pitch to the Prince George Chamber of Commerce on Thursday.

Carrier Lumber is not the subject of a WorkSafeBC noncompliance action. Although the Prince George sawmill was one of 11 mills around B.C.

Area-based management, a phrase rarely heard in recent years to describe forest practices in B.C., has come up repeatedly at the Special Committee on Timber Supply, a group of MLAs touring the province and returning to Prince George today.