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Cops For Cancer-Tour de North has pedaled it's last metre for 2011 and the riders are breathing easy about their geographic and financial accomplishments.

The Northern Supportive Recovery Society may move one step closer to creating a 30-bed women's addiction treatment centre at the former Haldi Road School tonight. The society has requested the former school, located at 5877 Leslie Rd.

Unsuspecting shoppers, drivers and pedestrians were faced with singers, dancers and eager car-washers this weekend as a post-secondary tradition continued in Prince George this weekend. The annual Shinerama campaign took place Sept.

Despite sightings in Prince George earlier this month and a recent attack on Vancouver Island that left a toddler hospitalized, cougar-human conflict is not on the rise, according to the provincial government.

Sept. 14 Donna Jane Cochrane was prohibited from driving for one year and fined $1,500 plus a $225 victim surcharge for failure or refusal to provide a breath sample.

Opportunities for lumber producers will continue to be overseas for several years yet, those who attended a panel session this week at the Council of Forest Industries annual convention were told. Although the pace of home building in the U.S.

Instead of trashing your old microwave, the province is urging British Columbians to consider an environmentally friendly alternative. A government-approved recycling program for small appliances starts up Oct.

A Sunday afternoon two-car collision left a pickup truck wrapped around a pole and a seven-year-old boy in the hospital. Around 5:30 p.m.

B.C.'s woods are getting safer for forest workers, according to those watching for injuries and deaths.

Northern B.C. has enormous potential to produce wood-based bioenergy, but it means forming partnerships and taking risks, Sinclair Group Forest Products president Greg Stewart.