Local News

Controversy followed the last Swollen Members performance in Prince George in Sept. 2010, yet the same promoter made the Vancouver-based hip hop group a late addition to the Tech N9ne concert last Saturday.

Local companies wanting to expand internationally and those that are seeking international investment partners are being encouraged to attend upcoming information sessions by the province's nine international trade and investment representatives.

Former-premier Bill Vander Zalm will be making his case against the harmonized sales tax on Thursday evening at UNBC, part of the B.C. government-sponsored public information sessions in the lead up to a referendum vote next month.

A charge of unauthorized disclosure of personal information against a City Hall manager was dropped just days before City councillor Brian Skakun was found guilty on the same charge from a separate matter, the Citizen has learned.

Mounties disrupted operations at a drug house on Quince Street Tuesday morning after the public made them aware of it. Prince George RCMP spokesman Cpl.

Northgate Minerals, which is developing an underground mine project in northern B.C., has purchased a former gold-producing property in Ontario for $216,500. The property is located in the Matachewan Gold Camp near Timmins, Ontario.

The B.C. Liberal government said today it will reduce the harmonized sales tax by two per cent if the new tax remains in place following a referendum vote next month.

British Columbia continues to maintain the lowest incidence of cancer and lowest mortality rates in Canada, according to a statistical analysis released this week by the Canadian Cancer Society.

Wondering what to do with the kids this summer? Big Brothers Big Sisters of Prince George is offering a series of week-long adventure day camps from July 4 to Sept. 2.

The B.C. Liberal government has introduced legislation to make changes that will only allow receiving licences to be transferred to another non-lumber producer.