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In an unprecedented move, city council voted to change the tax rates it approved last week - with only four days to make the changes under provincial legislation. On May 2, city council approved the first three readings of the tax rate bylaw.

Children across our community and Canada participated in the Federal Election as well. The schools that registered went through the voting process with the kids and the votes were sent to Ottawa.

Connaught Hill was the scene of a death investigated by police early Sunday morning. Police would not disclose the details of the incident other than to confirm it was an adult male who was deceased.

The B.C. Liberal government is contributing another $12 million to industry-led Geoscience B.C., an agency that provides high-level mineral exploration data in an effort to spark mining interest in the province.

Northgate Minerals expects to spend $1.4 million this year on examining the prospects of an underground gold and copper mine project in northern B.C.

Prince George and District Teachers Association vice president Matt Pearce dismissed the latest Fraser Institute rankings as the "product" of someone without any experience in education.

A night of drinking and a game of hide and seek led to something much more sinister, a Supreme Court Justice concluded, in finding a Prince George man guilty last week of sexually assaulting a young woman early last year.

Police in Northern B.C. are dispatching a call to the public.

Two people, both male, were killed early Tuesday in a fire at the College Heights Trailer Park.

A man who last made the news for his charitable work is speaking out after seeing his photo in a paper as a suspect for a crime he said he did not commit.