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When filmmaker Matt Smiley first heard about the Highway of Tears, he knew it was a story that had to be told.

The Prince George Public Library will be offering a series of workshops to help teens improve their chances of landing a job.

BURNS LAKE -- There are geologists, surveyors, map makers, data analysts, clothing and tool outfitters, machinery merchants, truckers, but one of the hardest professions to dig up at Minerals North 2012 was a miner.

An early morning rumble shook Hixon residents from their sleep Saturday after six CN Rail cars jumped the tracks.

BURNS LAKE -- Most of Canada's best miners started out the way Darien Price has. Since before he could remember, Price has been in love with rocks and fossils.

A group of approximately 10 band members and elders blockaded the McLeod Lake Indian Band office on Thursday, demanding the immediate resignation of the chief and council.

While the fire situation in B.C. remains uneventful, forests are burning out of control in Ontario and Quebec. That's prompted a response from the B.C.

The Walk for Lupus takes place at the Northern Sports Centre at the University of Northern B.C. today at 3 p.m. Lupus compromises the immune system and thus opens the door for many Lupus sufferers to contract even more life-threatening diseases.

He was the last of the 271 graduates of UNBC's College of Science and Management to hear his name called Friday.

Cindy Blackstock had at least one good reason to be at the UNBC convocation ceremonies Friday at the Charles Jago Northern Sport Centre. She wanted to see her sister Sheila walk across the stage to pick up her degree as a master of nursing.