Local News

Fortune Minerals has inked an $181-million deal with Korean steel-making giant POSCO to advance the Mount Klappan coal project in an area in northern B.C. which some First Nation members and environmental groups want to see preserved.

A provincial court judge has thrown out a case against two men charged with assault causing bodily harm in Fort Fraser because the trial had not been completed two years after their arrest and is blaming a lack of court resources for the delay.

Researchers at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) have made a long sought-for technical breakthrough in gene splicing that has potential long-term implications for the struggle to understand genetic disorders, such as cystic fibrosis,

DAWSON CREEK - As the above-normal snowpack continues to melt and with a high streamflow advisory in effect, travellers are advised that several Forest Service roads (FSR) are closed due to washouts and care should be taken on others.

The Fraser River at South Fort George continues to recede, City Hall said Thursday, but not enough to call off an evacuation alert for the east side of Farrell Street. As of 11:45 a.m. the river had dropped to 8.3 metres from 8.

Ground is broken today at 1 p.m. on Alward Street for the construction of Kordyban Lodge. The lodge is a major component in the cancer control strategy for northern B.C.

A three-year-old child has gone missing in the North Nechako area of the city. Police are currently investigating.

Proponents of the Allen Carr Easyway to Stop Smoking (ACESS) method want to use Prince George as a test site.

For the third time authorities have gone looking for a local elder since he went missing last fall, but it was the first time when the terrain was free of snow. Dietmar Josef Faeth, 74, has been unaccounted for since October.

The amount of timber allowed to be logged each year in the Lakes Timber Supply area, in the heart of the pine beetle epidemic in north-central B.C., has bee significantly reduced by B.C.'s chief forester.