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It's free and it's legal. That's why the library's new music database is called Freegal. The database allows library card holders to download as many as three songs per week from the Sony Music catalogue at no charge.

As of 2009, 208 city employees were earning $75,000 or more per year -and 62 were taking home more than $100,000 per year. City manager Derek Bates topped the list at City Hall with a 2009 salary of $194,263 and $10,406 in expenses.

Canfor Pulp is investing $10 million to operate a new research centre and start a new research program involving UNBC. The B.C.

Garett McComb and his girlfriend Brittney Geise were brutally murdered in a Prince George home in an organized crime clash in 2008. He was 23, she was 19. The family of McComb could not change the choices the young man made.

The Tisigar Lake fire has quietened down after rain dampened forest fuel. However, the fire, the largest in the province at 11,000 hectares, could spark up again with a forecast for warm and dry weather during the weekend in the area in Northern B.C.

Two Prince George men have been charged following a police raid on a marijuana grow operation on Chief Lake Road.

A man who tried to flee from police in a stolen truck on April Fool's was sentenced Friday to 14 months in jail for dangerous driving.

The ALS community invites everyone to Fort George Park on Sunday to take on a muscle-killing disease. Wendy Toyer, executive director of the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Society of B.C.

A Prince George man was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail Friday for sexually interfering with his granddaughter when she lived in his home between the ages of six and 10.

B.C. Hydro executive Doug Little said Friday northern B.C. is critically important as a prospective power generator through the proposed $7.