Local News

A man from Kelowna, visiting Prince George and staying at a hotel at the south end of Spruce Street, was the victim of a violent band of robbers.

Filling out your census form makes you and your community count, said the nation's data agency.

The Prince George Airport Authority is warning locals that it is holding its recurrent fire training place this week. On Saturday May 6 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to Friday May 13 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The fire that burned down Boston Pizza started outside at ground level and climbed up into the roof before it took off and consumed most of the restaurant, the attached Blockbuster Video outlet and an office in the rear.

Northern Health has given the city's heroin users a heads up about a bad batch circulating in the Lower Mainland but so far no one in northern B.C. has been harmed. A notice from the B.C.

Thompson Creek Metals has approved a $350 million cost increase in the Mount Milligan gold and copper mine in northern B.C. to $1.265 billion.

Just before the lunch bell sounded on Thursday, the sound of a racing engine cut the air in front of Pineview Elementary School. It was followed by the sound of a police siren.

The federal government has given the $404-million Northwest Transmission Line the green light, a move immediately welcomed by a B.C. mining group.

Independent Cariboo North MLA Bob Simpson has introduced a private members bill in the B.C. legislature to move the province's fixed election date to October from May. He wants to see the move implemented with an election on Oct. 11, 2012.

A Prince George man now serving jail time for sexually assaulting and choking a woman in a downtown alleyway has been found guilty of sexual assault and forcible confinement for a separate incident.