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Do we really need MLAs? They're nice enough people. But as the legislative session ended Thursday after just 24 sitting days, I wondered if we need to pay 85 people salaries starting at $100,000 a year to fill the seats in the red-carpeted chamber.

A rally in support of striking postal workers drew nearly 100 people to the steps of the downtown Canada Post office on Saturday afternoon, where labour leaders stressed the importance of stopping a trend towards a "two-tiered workforce" in Canada.

RCMP say they uncovered nearly 30 kilograms (60 pounds) of dried marijuana when they raided a home on Mcdonald Road in Vanderhoof on Thursday.

B.C. New Democratic Party leader Adrian Dix turned a speech to B.C. Federation of Labour delegates Saturday into a rallying cry to get ready for the next election, saying his party plans to run a campaign based on a "hopeful message.

Society selling off some homes, hiking rent on others

B.C. Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair launched a blistering assault on the B.C. Liberal government Friday, telling an assembly of northern labour leaders the region is not getting its share of wealth produced here. He argued against a B.C.

Thieves thought they had a line on some copper wire, but police dialed them up before they could make off with the cable. Three men - Thomas Stewart Robertson, 54; Robert Burgess, 55; Gregory Scott Saugstad, 39 - are the alleged perpetrators.

Postal workers are not making promises either way on whether Prince George will be on the target list as they begin a campaign of rotating work stoppages to press Canada Post for higher pay and better working conditions.

Charges have been stayed against a woman who had allegedly been involved in the sexual assault at the Renegades clubhouse slightly more than two months ago.

Local Mounties drew some blood against impaired drivers, last year. Alexa would have thanked them.